On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 22:24:31 GMT, Naoto Sato <na...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> After some internal discussion, we thought it was good to expose the native > environment's default character encoding, which Charset.defaultCharset() is > currently based on. This way applications will have a better migration path > after the [JEP 400](https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/400) is implemented, in > which Charset.defaultCharset() will return UTF-8, but the value of this new > system property will remain intact. A > [CSR](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8266075) has been filed with > more detailed information. src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/System.java line 704: > 702: * <tr><th scope="row">{@systemProperty native.encoding}</th> > 703: * <td>Character encoding name derived from the host environment > and/or > 704: * the user's settings. Setting this system property has no > effect.</td></tr> May be "This property is read-only" instead of "Setting this system property has no effect" to not confuse with "user's settings"? test/jdk/java/lang/System/PropertyTest.java line 83: > 81: {"java.runtime.version"}, > 82: {"java.runtime.name"}, > 83: {"native.encoding"}, Does this test differentiate between read-only and modifiable properties? "native.encoding" looks like it's explicitly overridable. Or do we need a test to verify it's not overridable? ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3777
