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. Unless there is some use case other than for migration, I would not introduce a static method as Alan mentioned. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3777