Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-08-22 Thread Nasser Ebrahim
Bursie To: Alan Bateman , Nasser Ebrahim , core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net, build-dev Date: 08/22/2018 02:27 PM Subject:Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets On 2018-08-05 20:38, Alan Bateman wrote: > > As regards the way forward then I think we have to put infrastructure

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-08-22 Thread Nasser Ebrahim
if you have any inputs. Thank you, Nasser Ebrahim From: Alan Bateman To: Nasser Ebrahim , core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net, Xueming Shen Date: 08/06/2018 12:08 AM Subject:Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets On 24/07/2018 09:56, Nasser Ebrahim wrote: Thank you Martin, Sherman

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-08-22 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
On 2018-08-05 20:38, Alan Bateman wrote: As regards the way forward then I think we have to put infrastructure into the build to make it easy to allow specific charsets be included or excluded from specific platforms. As things stand, and as have you have found with your updates to the stdcs-

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-08-06 Thread Florian Weimer
On 07/06/2018 02:23 PM, Nasser Ebrahim wrote: Hi Florian, Thank you for your response. iconv is platform dependent and not good for the platform agnostic nature of Java. Also, many charsets in Java are not available across platforms. I believe Java decided to have its own charsets due to those r

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-08-05 Thread Alan Bateman
On 24/07/2018 09:56, Nasser Ebrahim wrote: Thank you Martin, Sherman and Alan for your valuable inputs. I have done some initial analysis on the ICU4J. There are some compatibility issues on the ICU4J charsets with JDK charsets but am more concerned about its performance as JDK optimization do

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-24 Thread Nasser Ebrahim
To: Xueming Shen , Nasser Ebrahim Cc: core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net Date: 07/19/2018 03:44 PM Subject:Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets On 19/07/2018 08:27, Xueming Shen wrote: > Hi Nasser, > > From openjdk's perspective It would be preferred to direct the

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-19 Thread Alan Bateman
On 19/07/2018 08:27, Xueming Shen wrote: Hi Nasser, From openjdk's perspective It would be preferred to direct the develop to use the charset implementation provided by IBM, or the reliable third party that has the appropriate knowledge, experience and resource to support/maintain those charse

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-19 Thread Xueming Shen
ateman To: Nasser Ebrahim , Xueming Shen , core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net Date: 07/09/2018 01:25 AM Subject: Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets On 06/07/2018 14:56, Nasser Ebrahim wrote: > : > I understood you pre

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-17 Thread Martin Buchholz
History: I recall 15 years ago wondering why no one from IBM was maintaining the IBM charsets in the jdk. Today anything but UTF-* is increasingly legacy, so the case for including them is weaker than back then. Probably today the IBM charsets are best maintained outside the jdk sources as a thi

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-17 Thread Nasser Ebrahim
: 07/09/2018 01:25 AM Subject:Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets On 06/07/2018 14:56, Nasser Ebrahim wrote: > : > I understood you preferred option is 3 [Remove all extended charsets from > JDK (keep only default charsets) and use the extended charsets from third > part

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-08 Thread Alan Bateman
On 06/07/2018 14:56, Nasser Ebrahim wrote: : I understood you preferred option is 3 [Remove all extended charsets from JDK (keep only default charsets) and use the extended charsets from third party like ICU4J]. Just to confirm, so you meant we need to keep only the standard charsets in the JDK a

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-06 Thread Nasser Ebrahim
n start working towards creating a separate charset provider/module for IBM charsets in JDK. Please advise. Thank you, Nasser Ebrahim From: Xueming Shen To: core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net Date: 07/05/2018 10:14 PM Subject:Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets Sent by:&q

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-06 Thread Nasser Ebrahim
supported platforms. Thank you, Nasser Ebrahim From: Florian Weimer To: Nasser Ebrahim , Java Core Libs Date: 07/04/2018 07:11 PM Subject:Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets On 07/04/2018 02:41 PM, Nasser Ebrahim wrote: > Please share your thoughts on your prefer

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-05 Thread Xueming Shen
On 7/4/18, 5:41 AM, Nasser Ebrahim wrote: Hello, Am starting this mail thread to discuss about adding new IBM extended charsets. The questions is whether we need to add the new extended charsets to jdk.charsets or to a new separate charset provider/module like jdk.ibmcharsets. This discussion

Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-04 Thread Florian Weimer
On 07/04/2018 02:41 PM, Nasser Ebrahim wrote: Please share your thoughts on your preferred option and list out any other options which I missed out. Thank you for your time. Could you use the platform iconv implementation instead? That would avoid shipping the tables in the JDK. Thanks, Flo

Adding new IBM extended charsets

2018-07-04 Thread Nasser Ebrahim
Hello, Am starting this mail thread to discuss about adding new IBM extended charsets. The questions is whether we need to add the new extended charsets to jdk.charsets or to a new separate charset provider/module like jdk.ibmcharsets. This discussion is in continuation of the suggestion from