On 21 February 2018 at 13:37, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > The proposal is to eventually get to the point that the default charset > cannot be changed. It will take several releases to get there due to the > potential compatibility impact.
This seems like a reasonable strategy to solve the problem. I also agree that all locations where a default charset is used need to have a method alongside that takes a CharSet, eg. FileWriter. Stephen
