+1 for adding a public Console.encoding(). I remember needing it as well, the current hacks are very ugly.
Dawid On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Claes pointed out that our own reflective hacks to figure out console > encoding do not work anymore [1]. But, we need the console encoding for > reliably printing on the console from within different sources. Note > that you would normally just use System.console() and its PrintWriter, > but reality is a bit more complicated, and sometimes you need to write > the plain char stream directly into the byte[]-accepting methods, > encoding on your own. > > So, my question: should we, in the light of extended Jigsaw-solving > crunch, provide the public Console.encoding() method that would return > the console charset? > > Thanks, > -Aleksey > > [1] > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jmh-dev/2016-September/002330.html >
