JDK-8220199 : Remove support for "sun.security.policy.utf8" system property
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: security-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.security
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • Submitted: 2019-03-05
  • Updated: 2021-07-21
  • Resolved: 2020-11-30
Related Reports
CSR :  
JDK-8221877 - Remove support for "sun.security.policy.utf8" system property
Relates :  
JDK-4667175 - Cannot parsing java.policy which includes some 2 bytes char
Description
This property was introduced in JDK 1.4.2 to preserve compatibility with policy files that were not encoded in UTF-8. See https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/compatibility-142878.html for more details. 

Since JDK 1.4.0, all policy files are required to be encoded in UTF-8. It should be very low risk to remove support for this property.
Comments
This is a minor issue that is relatively harmless to leave as-is for now.
30-11-2020