java - What exactly is sun.jnu.encoding?

Question

What is the purpose of the system property sun.jnu.encoding? Various fragments on the web set or report it, but I can't find a definition.

Answer 1

see http://happygiraffe.net/blog/2009/09/24/java-platform-encoding/

This link describes the usage of the sun.jnu.encoding property for using the correct encoding when parsing values passed via the commandline, something that setting the file.encoding property doesn't influence.