The ubiquitous use of UTF-8 is one of the few clear successes in the software world. In 2019, most software projects should declare that all their source files are encoded in UTF-8, not US-ASCII.
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 9:04 AM Dan Smith <daniel.sm...@oracle.com> wrote: > Please review this patch to make explicit use of the UTF-8 charset in > build tools' IO code. > > JDK-8065704 changed the platform default to US-ASCII, so the intended > effect of this change is to address a regression and restore the typical > earlier behavior. > > My particular interest is in fixuppandoc, but it seems like we might has > well patch all of this code to avoid relying on the platform default. > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dlsmith/8234835/
