Name: gm110360 Date: 10/07/2002


FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
[redcat@freestyler bin]$ ./java -version
WARNING: Default charset CP1251 not supported, using ISO-8859-1 instead
java version "1.4.1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1-b21, mixed mode)


FULL OPERATING SYSTEM VERSION :
RedHat 7.3 linux

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Runing java on Linux system with locale ru_RU.CP1251 gives a mesage: 'WARNING: Default charset CP1251 not supported, using ISO-8859-1 instead'. But encoding CP1251 is supported by java, and locale ru_RU (language Russian, country
Russia) is supported too. Please add support for this locale:
ru_RU.CP1251 (language Russian, country Russia).
And by the way:
uk_UA.CP1251 (language Ukrainian, country Ukraine).

On jdk 1.4.0 runing java on those encodings gives
java.lang.NullPointerException.

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
1. 'java' or any tool from jdk


REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

CUSTOMER WORKAROUND :
Change system locale to ru_RU.KOI8-R.
(Review ID: 164659)
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