Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

hi,

i recently decided to using jre1.5.0_9-b01 and wondered why my application that has originally been developed with 1.4.2_12 doesn't support the cp850 encoding anymore.

so i browsed the docs at:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html

and found out that beside others the cp850 belongs to an extended encoding set included in lib/charsets.jar.

straight to the point, there is no such charsets.jar in the lib directory of the jre5 installation.

as a temporary fix, i copied the charsets.jar from the 1.4.2 installation and my application works fine again.

so, why is charsets.jar not included in jre5?

best wishes,
r.