How can one keep it symmetrical without forcing a particular encoding? Brian
On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Mike Duigou <mike.dui...@oracle.com> wrote: > Shouldn't we be using the platform default character set rather than > iso8859-1? > > This change will change the charset used for all platforms not using > iso885901 as their default. > > It is certainly odd that sun.misc.CharacterEncoder(byte) and > sun.misc.CharacterDecoder(String) are not symmetrical but this seems like a > serious historical wart we might need to preserve.