On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 14:57, Xueming Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, don't trap people into using -Dfile.encoding, always treat it as a > read only property:-) > > I believe initializeEncoding(env) gets invoked before -Dxyz=abc overwrites > the default one, > beside the "jnu encoding" is introduced in 6.0, so we no longer look > file.encoding since, I believe > you "ARE" the reviewer:-)
Oh dear. Sorry for the misinformation. Summary: - newer Linux systems ship without any ISO-8859-1 locale (you can add one using the command "sudo locale-gen en_US") - Specifying "C" or "POSIX" for LANG or LC_ALL will cause Java to use "ASCII", not "ISO-8859-1" as the default locale, which is likely not what you want :-( - The JDK uses two different system properties, sun.jnu.encoding, and file.encoding, for default charset use. This is very confusing, undocumented, and non-standardized. Setting these as system properties on the command line appears to be unsupported. Is that right? I'm pretty unhappy about the situation. Martin
