The current state of ‘ill-defined encoding’ creates unnecessary problems when working with the JDK codebase, an OpenJDK proposal says. Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in ...

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Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan ...