Native2ascii failure -asian locales - Solaris specific.

Question

I am trying to run the native2ascii utility to convert my asian locale property files to Unicode. The utility works on Windows, HP-UX, and IBM AIX, but fails on Solaris. It does work with ASCII and ISO8859_1 encodings. Below is the error I am getting. I am using 1.4.2_03-b02 on Solaris. Note that when I do look in the /usr/j2se/jre/lib directory, the charsets.jar file is there. Any ideas what I may be missing?
/usr/j2se/bin/native2ascii -encoding EUC_JP properties/PLMVisResourceBundle_ja_JP.properties com/eai/visweb/properties/PLMVisResourceBundle_ja_JP.properties
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sun.io.CharToByteJIS0208.getIndex1()[S
at sun.nio.cs.ext.JIS_X_0208$Encoder.<init>(JIS_X_0208.java:77)
at sun.nio.cs.ext.EUC_JP$Encoder.<init>(EUC_JP.java:210)
at sun.nio.cs.ext.EUC_JP$Encoder.<init>(EUC_JP.java:199)
at sun.nio.cs.ext.EUC_JP.newEncoder(EUC_JP.java:46)
at sun.tools.native2ascii.Main.initializeConverter(Main.java:331)
at sun.tools.native2ascii.Main.convert(Main.java:110)
at sun.tools.native2ascii.Main.main(Main.java:376)

Answer 1

I was able to figure this out, using some of the other native2ascii options. Using -J-verbose showed me that the CharToByteJIS0208 class was found in the i18n.jar file and not the charsets.jar file as I had presumed. Because of the order of loading the JRE jar files by Java and i18n was loaded first. I have overcome this problem by adding the -J-Xbootclasspath/p:"path to charsets.jar" option to the native2ascii command to ensure it finds the class in the right jar file.