org.terracotta.utilities.exec

Class Shell.Encoding

java.lang.Object

org.terracotta.utilities.exec.Shell.Encoding

Enclosing class:

Shell

public static final class Shell.Encoding
extends Object

Singleton identifying the Charset used for encoding/decoding interactions with the "shell" command interpreter environment. On Windows, especially, this is likely not the value of Charset.defaultCharset() -- which is the Charset used for file content encoding.

For Windows, this method calls the Windows chcp command to determine the code page used by a "fresh" CMD shell and returns the corresponding Charset.

The following Java system properties and values deal with encodings:

file.encoding

The encoding used for file content:

Windows

Derived from GetLocaleInfoEx(GetUserDefaultLCID(), LOCALE_IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE, ...); uses code page 1252 if the GetLocaleInfoEx request fails.

Non-Windows

setlocale(LC_ALL, "") is used to establish the system's default locale; then setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL) is used to fetch the character-handling aspects of the default locale. The encoding value is parsed from the default locale name or obtained from nl_langinfo(CODESET) depending on the values involved. On Mac OS X, if the value is determined to be US-ASCII and none of the environment variables LANG, LC_ALL, or LC_CTYPE are set, a value of UTF-8 is used instead.

The value of Charset.defaultCharset() is derived from this value if it represents a supported character set.

sun.jnu.encoding

The "platform" encoding -- the encoding used bt the JVM to form strings presented to the OS:

Windows

Derived from GetLocaleInfoEx(GetSystemDefaultLCID(), LOCALE_IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE, ...); uses encoding 1252 if the GetLocaleInfoEx request fails.

Non-Windows

See file.encoding above.

sun.stdout.encoding

The encoding used for output to STDOUT; only available for "console" applications:

Windows

Determined by GetConsoleCP(). This is actually in error -- it should rely on GetConsoleOutputCP().

Non-Windows

Not used.

sun.stderr.encoding

The encoding used for output to STDERR; only available for "console" applications:

Windows

Determined by GetConsoleCP(). This is actually in error -- it should rely on GetConsoleOutputCP().

Non-Windows

Not used.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static Charset	CHARSET The Charset to use when interacting with the shell.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Encoding()

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

CHARSET

public static final Charset CHARSET

The Charset to use when interacting with the shell.

Constructor Detail

Encoding

public Encoding()