Encodings bug in Xalan-J 2.2.D11?

[Isaac Shabtay <is...@netvision.net.il>]

Hi there.

I'm talking in the source code of javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory,
in the findFactory() method. There's a place there when it tries to find the transformer factory
using the services API.

Lines 441-442 are:

******* START *******

BufferedReader rd = 
    new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));

******* END *******

The problem is that the services API state that the service file in WEB-INF/services must be UTF-8.
Therefore, I think that instead of:

new InputStreamReader(is)

there should be written:

new InputStreamReader(is,"UTF-8")

Currently, I guess that this works out well mostly because almost everybody is using Xalan on ASCII environments,
and when talking about english characters, UTF-8 is kind-of similar to ASCII (if I recall right, both encodings are the same regarding english characters).

This line causes trouble when using Xalan on non-ASCII platforms (I tried to run it on an IBM OS/390, which uses EBCDIC as its default encoding).

Now I have some questions, and since I'm pretty new here (I've RTFMed already, thanks), please be kind:

1)    Am I right here?
2)    If not - when & why?
3)    If yes - what now? Opening a bug report in BugZilla?


Thanks for any reply.


    - Isaac