Name: rmT116609 Date: 05/22/2003


FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.4.2-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-beta-b19)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-beta-b19, mixed mode)


FULL OS VERSION :
Linux wwA 2.4.18-27.8.0 i686
Linux ww1 2.4.7-10 i686

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
System.out.println(" ä [ae] ") results in
ä [ae] if system uses encoding utf8 no matter of file.encoding and
? [ae] on system with iso-8859-1 encoding

with version 1.4.1 it does well..

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
System.out.println(" ä [ae] ");
1) run with java 1.4.1 with -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1
2) run with java 1.4.1 with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

3) run with java 1.4.2beta with -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1
4) run with java 1.4.2beta with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
if system terminal is utf8
1) ? [ae]
2) ä [ae]

3) ? [ae]
4) ä [ae]

if system terminal is iso-8859-1
1) ä [ae]
2) ? [ae]

3) ä [ae]
4) ? [ae]


ACTUAL -
if system terminal is utf8
1) ? [ae]
2) ä [ae]

3) ä [ae]
4) ä [ae]

if system terminal is iso-8859-1
1) ä [ae]
2) ? [ae]

3) ? [ae]
4) ? [ae]



REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------

public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args)
{
  System.out.println(" ä [ae]");
}

}
---------- END SOURCE ----------
(Review ID: 186102)
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