[LOG4J2-1038] Incorrect documentation for layout default charset

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: Documentation, Layouts
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gili
• Created: 02/Jun/15 20:54
• Updated: 09/Oct/16 17:53
• Resolved: 03/Jun/15 02:48

Description

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-255 states that the default charset is the system default (a fact I confirmed by running local tests). http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/layouts.html incorrectly states that the default charset is UTF-8.

Please update the documentation to state that the default is the system default and strongly recommend (in bold) that the user sets an explicit charset.

Issue Links

• relates to: LOG4J2-1636 Console Appender does not pick up Oracle Java 8's sun.stdout.encoding and sun.stderr.encoding