On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 8:55 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Good progress was made via JDK-8183743 [1] in Java SE 10 to add constructors > and methods that take a Charset and eliminate the historical > inconsistencies. The issue of legacy FileReader/FileWriter is linked from > that JIRA issue. > Can we ensure we have CharsetDecoder/Encoder params too? There is unfortunately a huge difference between InputStreamReader(x, StandardCharsets.UTF_8) and InputStreamReader(x, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.newDecoder()). And the silent replacement of the "easier" one is probably not what most apps want.
