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.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3777

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