Draft JEP: To use UTF-8 as the default charset for the Java virtual machine.

[Xueming Shen]

This draft JEP contains a proposal to use UTF-8 as the default charset 
for the JVM, so that
APIs that depend on the default charset behave consistently cross all 
platforms.

For more details, please see: 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8187041

Sherman