> Please review my fix for 8011194 : "Apps launched via double-clicked .jars > have file.encoding value of US-ASCII on Mac OS X" > > http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8011194 > > In most cases of launching a Java app on Mac (from the cmdline, or from a > native .app bundle), reading and displaying UTF-8 characters beyond the > standard ASCII range works fine. > > A notable exception is the launching of an app by double-clicking a .jar > file. In this case, file.encoding defaults to US-ASCII, and characters > outside of the ASCII range show up as garbage. > > (FWIW, this is not recommended by Apple as a method for deploying Java apps > [1], though OS X does have a Jar Launcher.app to make it work.) > > It's worth mentioning that this is not something that has ever worked on > MacOS X. (Apple's JRE defaulted to "MacRoman" for English and AFAIK most > European locales. I believe this is a holdover from the pre-OS X days). > > Even so, the situation can be improved. When launching, if the standard > encoding comes up as US-ASCII, but there are no hints from the environment > (e.g. LANG/etc environment variables), it would be sane to instead use UTF-8 > as the default encoding on MacOS X. An explicit file.encoding setting by the > user is still honored (and can even be set back to US-ASCII). > > I believe this also fixes the related issue with webstart [2].
That'd be wonderful! :) I'm not a "Reviewer" but it looks fine to me. -DrD-
