[ACCUMULO-840] Allow String-based getBytes calls to pick Charset ending from JVM setting.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: David Medinets
• Reporter: David Medinets
• Created: 31/Oct/12 01:40
• Updated: 20/Apr/14 16:48
• Resolved: 20/Apr/14 16:48

Description

ACCUMULO-836 changed all String-based getBytes() calls to use the UTF-8 standard. However, there is a JVM setting called "jvm.encoding" that should be honored. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/361975/setting-the-default-java-character-encoding for a discussion of JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS which might be relevant to this topic. http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2012/01/get-set-default-character-encoding.html is also a good page to read especially the comment on how character encoding is cached.

Issue Links

• relates to: ACCUMULO-1593 Looking up instanceName in ZK doesn't use consistent encoding