On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:59:11 GMT, Naoto Sato <na...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/Console.java line 590:
>> 
>>> 588:         if (cs == null) {
>>> 589:             cs = Charset.forName(StaticProperty.nativeEncoding(),
>>> 590:                     Charset.defaultCharset());
>> 
>> I assume that `StaticProperty.nativeEncoding()` will never be `null`? 
>> Otherwise an IAE would be thrown here where previously 
>> `Charset.defaultCharset()` would be used.
>
> Yes. `StaticProperty.nativeEncoding()` caches the value to `native.encoding` 
> system property. The value is not optional, so it should be considered an 
> error if `StaticProperty.nativeEncoding()` returned `null`.
> https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk18/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/System.html#native.encoding

Thanks for the clarification.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6045

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