Bug ID: JDK-4488646 Java executable and System properties need to support Unicode on Windows

JDK-4488646 : Java executable and System properties need to support Unicode on Windows

Type: Bug
Component: core-libs
Sub-Component: java.lang
Affected Version: 1.4.0,1.4.2

Priority: P4
Status: Open
Resolution: Unresolved
OS: windows_nt,windows_2000
CPU: generic,x86

Submitted: 2001-08-06
Updated: 2017-08-09

Related Reports

Relates :	JDK-4519026 - (process) Process should support Unicode on Windows
Relates :	JDK-4900150 - Use Unicode API on in the area other than AWT
Relates :	JDK-8124977 - cmdline encoding challenges on Windows
Relates :	JDK-4738465 - (process) Need to create subprocess environment derived from current environment
Relates :	JDK-4199068 - Please return the functionality of getenv()

Description

We have recently added full Unicode name support to Windows NT/2000 filesystem.

To make Java completely Unicode-aware on NT we need to

1) Modify System properties initialization code and all other places
where Windows calls are used to use wide-char calls on NT.

2) Modify java, javac etc. to be able to use Unicode in classpath and other command line arguments.

Comments

EVALUATION To fix this bug requires large, coordinated changes in both the libraries and the virtual machine. This work should be considered for 1.4.1. -- mr@eng 2001/8/7 See my comments for 4519026: (process) Process should support Unicode on Win NT Brief summary: - Use wmain instead of main on Windows - Create wchar_t versions of functions such as JVM_NativePath - Call CreateProcessW instead of CreateProcess ###@###.### 2003-08-18

18-08-2003