Nio and java startup charset setting

Question

Hi,
there's a way to set a specific platform charset when starting up jvm? On my linux, jvm starts with UTF-8 II see this looking at the encoding of a FileReader).
I need to set a default chaset to ISO-8859-1 (I cannot specify this ont he filereader, I'm using other's library).
Thank you Stefano,.

Answer 1

Set the LANG environment variable.
$ cat a.java
public class a {
public static void main(String a[]) {
System.out.println(System.getProperty("file.encoding"));
}$ javac a.java
$ echo $LANG
hu_HU
$ java a
ISO-8859-2
$ LANG=en_US
$ java a
ISO-8859-1
$ LANG=ru_RU
$ java a
ISO-8859-5