Summary

Remove support for the non-standard "sun.security.policy.utf8" system property.

Problem

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. This compatibility feature is not necessary anymore. It should be very low risk to remove support for this property.

Solution

Remove support for the property. Require that all policy files are encoded in UTF-8.

Specification

TBD.