That is to say either explicitly or implicitly, i.e., using the default on both ends?
On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhal...@oracle.com> wrote: > 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.
