Re: Encoding name problems when running Jigsaw with ORP plus Classpat h

[Aaron M. Renn]

Wu, Gansha (address@hidden) wrote:
> This is the third of the series.
> 
> The encoding name convention is different between Classpath and standards. 
> For instance, ISO-8859-1 appears in Classpath like "8859_1", I wonder why 
> Classpath does this way, because "8859_1" even didn't appear in IANA's 
> official names of character set 
> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets) and J2SE documentations 
> (e.g, http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html). 
> While Classpath uses these names to locate decoder classes, a mapping should 
> be done somewhere. Classpath provides a alias mechanism to use 
> System.properties to do the mapping. But who will insert these properties? 
> Any guys have ideas about this?

Good question.  IIRC, I choose 8859_1 because the Japhar or someone else used
it.  There are so many variants of character set names people might specify
that I put in this alias mechanism.  It is also necessary to handle
encoding class names that have -'s.  You are correct that no work has been
done to set this up however.

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