No plan to add them yet. With the java.nio.charset.spi introduced into
JDK since 1.4, developers and
third party vendors are encouraged to implement the new charsets
themself via SPI, when those charsets
are not included in the JDK/JRE default chraset repository and they are
needed in their business.
That said, we consantly consider the possibility of adding more charsets
into the JDK/JRE default
repository, should need/request be justified.
Sherman
[email protected] wrote:
Hi everybody!
Is there any possibility that a further charset (HOST IBM CP1153/1375
Latin 2 - EBCDIC Multilingual) will be part of
a next JRE version or update? It is quite a new charset and is simular
to IBM870, but has the EURO sign in addition.
As more and more countries in eastern europe change their currency to
euro or use it for payment, it is getting more
and more important (in particular for mainframes).
We have a problem just now with a DB2 java driver, which does not
support this charset because it is at the moment not part of the
standard JVM.
Thanks for your reply in advance!
Best regards
Boris Just
