By fixing 4197265, 4137321, now javadoc (standard doclet) accept new option '-charset' to specify output HTML encoding.

However, if the user does not specify this option, the default charset tag inserted in HTML file is always 'iso-8859-1'. On Japanese system, the wrong charset META tag confuses the browser and cannot display Japanese at all. This might be also true to Korean, Chinese.

If the user does not specify this option, the default is 'not include META tag.' Including wrong charaset is worse than nothing.
 
[koushi.takahashi@japan 1999-02-10]