[LOG4J2-1799] Error determining the current charset

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.1
• Assignee: Remko Popma
• Reporter: Vadim Lotarev
• Created: 25/Jan/17 08:57
• Updated: 02/Feb/17 17:03
• Resolved: 02/Feb/17 16:50

Description

Switching to the latest release I've immediately got the following error:

Unable to inject fields into builder class for plugin type class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.ConsoleAppender, element Consol
e. java.nio.charset.UnsupportedCharsetException: sun.stdout.encoding

In the PropertiesUtil I see the following:

    public Charset getCharsetProperty(final String name, final Charset defaultValue) {
        final String prop = getStringProperty(name);
        return prop == null ? defaultValue : Charset.forName(name);
    }

Shouldn't prop be used in Charset.forName(name) instead of name?

Issue Links

• is broken by: LOG4J2-1636 Console Appender does not pick up Oracle Java 8's sun.stdout.encoding and sun.stderr.encoding
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #57