Hi Piotr,
Thank you so much for the quick analysis!
Gary
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 17:35 Piotr P. Karwasz <piotr.karw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> > The script that starts our app uses an environment variable called
> > LOG4J and starting with 2.18.0, Log4j puts the content of this
> > environment variable in ALL system properties.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Sorry, I must have broken it while fixing LOG4J-3413. The
> ConsoleAppender is actually calling
> PropertiesUtil.getCharsetProperty("sun.stdout.encoding") and:
>
> * it looks up a literal environment/system property
> "sun.stdout.encoding" and finds nothing,
> * it tokenizes "sun.stdout.encoding" and obtains an empty list of
> tokens (this should prevent "configurationFile" to be confused with
> "log4j2.configurationFile"),
> * it normalizes the empty list of tokens and looks up a Java system
> property named "log4j2" and an environment variable named "LOG4J".
>
> I'll fix it tomorrow and add a test.
>
> Piotr
>
