Sorry, I'm sympathetic but I can't help push this through. These days, all computers should have a default charset of UTF-8 or perhaps one of the other "Standard" charsets. Other charsets should be regarded as legacy. Surely AIX has UTF-8 variants of all the locales?
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Leonard < andrew_m_leon...@uk.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi Martin, > Just to add to Ichiroh's comments, if an AIX machine is configured with a > default OS charset of IBM-964 or IBM-29626C, then the OpenJDK VM(Hotspot) > will be unable to start as the VM initialization during the bootstrap phase > will try to load the charset. Thus it must be in the java.base charsets, > hence Ichiroh's changeset. > We are very keen to get these changes in, as we don't actually have an > internal IBM AIX openjdk branch, our emphasis is very much in the "open". > If you are able to help us achieve that goal, that would be very much > appreciated please. > Many thanks > Andrew > > Andrew Leonard > Java Runtimes Development > IBM Hursley > IBM United Kingdom Ltd > Phone internal: 245913, external: 01962 815913 > internet email: andrew_m_leon...@uk.ibm.com > > > Unless stated otherwise above: > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number > 741598. > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU >