JDK-5109078 : Request support for 8859-6-{i,e} and 8859-8-{i,e} encodings
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.nio.charsets
  • Affected Version: 6
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2004-09-29
  • Updated: 2013-04-25
  • Resolved: 2013-04-25
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-4336841 - Arabic locales do not have \u0660 as zero digit base
Description
JavaMail depends on the JDK for charset conversions.  At present, the following
encodings are not supported by the JDK:  iso-8859-6-{i,e} and iso-8859-8-{i,e}
We need to determine how to handle these encodings within the charset APIs.

Two e-mail threads are included in the comments section.

-- iag@sfbay 2004-09-29
Comments
There is no plan to support these variants in jdk8, for now. Personally I believe the visual/logical order conversion of bidi text should be handled by specific bidi components. Closed as "won't fix". Feel free to re-open if you disagreed and have a strong business case that this should be supported in jdk's charset repository.
25-04-2013