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New candidate JEP: 400: UTF-8 by Default

Use UTF-8 as the JDK's default charset, so that APIs that depend on the default charset behave consistently across all platforms and independently of the user(s locale and configuration…


More at https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-March/005175.html.