When I start java on my Macbook after the current working directory has been deleted, the VM crashes during inizialization with the message: "java.lang.InternalError: platform encoding not initialized".

How to reproduce:

% mkdir test
% cd test
% rmdir ../test
% java
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.InternalError: platform encoding not initialized
at jdk.internal.util.SystemProps$Raw.platformProperties(java.base@23-ea/Native Method)
at jdk.internal.util.SystemProps$Raw.<init>(java.base@23-ea/SystemProps.java:263)
at jdk.internal.util.SystemProps.initProperties(java.base@23-ea/SystemProps.java:67)
at java.lang.System.initPhase1(java.base@23-ea/System.java:2165)

I reproduced this with OpenJDK 21.0.3 as well as recent 23 and 24 builds on macOS 14.5 and 14.6.1. It doesn't happen on my Linux laptop.