Hi What is the status of this issue [1]? It addresses some long-standing issues with Java's Unicode support on Windows and was contributed by a team of Microsoft engineers. However, it seems to have gone dormant right before the finish line, and I can't really figure out who's waiting for whom at this point.
A little reconstruction from what I could find: In January 2015, Martin Sawicki made the initial proposal to address the cmdline encoding challenges on Windows [2] >From June to September, there were ongoing discussions [3][4][5][6] In November, this was shortly picked up again by the Oracle engineers [7] In January 2016, after a ping by a Microsoft engineer, the discussions restarted [8] In February 2016, the patch seemed nearly ready for integration, with an Oracle engineer asking whom to mention as contributors etc. [9] Since then, I was unable to find any messages related to this issue (Personally, I would love to see this issue progress, in order to be able to associate Java programs with file extensions on Windows. This is currently problematic, since a file containing Unicode characters will not get passed correctly as an argument to the Java program) Kind regards, Anthony [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8124977 [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-January/031068.html [3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-June/034226.html [4] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-July/034488.html [5] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-August/034838.html [6] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-September/035466.html [7] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-November/036769.html [8] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-January/037927.html [9] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-February/039013.html
