tim.foster@Ireland 1999-02-05

This is a bug that tracks bug id 4194488 This codeset is widely used in russia and is part of the solaris 7 russian supplement, and is now part of base Solaris 8. It should be supported on any vm that's shipped with solaris. I think this codeset is essentially cp1251, though there does not seem to be a table that converts the call to nl_langinfo(CODESET) result (of ansi-1251) to Cp1251.

timf@cheers[11] setenv CLASSPATH /home/timf/projects/java/locale
timf@cheers[12] ./java testcharconvert
Testing character conversions.. - using default encoding : ansi-1251
A conversion using the encoding : ansi-1251 , has caused an exception
java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: ansi-1251
character value failed on : 20
timf@cheers[13] locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="ru.ansi1251"
LC_NUMERIC="ru.ansi1251"
LC_TIME="ru.ansi1251"
LC_COLLATE="ru.ansi1251"
LC_MONETARY="ru.ansi1251"
LC_MESSAGES="ru.ansi1251"
LC_ALL=ru.ansi1251
timf@cheers[14] ./java -version
./java version "1.2"
Solaris VM (build Solaris_JDK_1.2_01_dev06_fcsV, native threads, sunwjit)
timf@cheers[15] ^R
 
timf@cheers[15] ./java -fullversion
java full version "Solaris_JDK_1.2_01_dev06_fcsV"


I believe this has been fixed by java software in their VM.