On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:27:44 GMT, Naoto Sato <na...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Oh, here are lots of news to me. >> >> 1) What is the system locale? How do you check which locale is the system >> locale (as opposed to the user locale), and how to you change it? >> >> 2) What is the UTF-8 beta option? > > IMHO, Windows has a history of patching up locale support. They have at least > System/User/UI default locales. > > That said, > 1) System locale is the locale of the OS that affects all users/non-Unicode > ANSI applications. You can set it in the ControlPanel->Regional > Settings->Administrative->"Change System Locale" button. > > 2) There is a check box that reads "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide > language support". This enables ANSI applications to use UTF-8 for wide char > <-> multibyte conversion. > > So in a nutshell, these combinations of settings end up in many unexpected > situations. YMMV I added a requirement on the system locale, and that it affects file path encoding. I decided to skip mentioning the UTF-8 as long as it is still beta. Once it is officially released, we can come back and make proper recommendations in the readme. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16694#discussion_r1399335975
