What happened to native2ascii executable in Java 9

Question

I am trying to compile my application with java 9 and it is failing because native2ascii executable is not there. Has it been removed in Java 9? Is there another tool that does the same thing?

Answer 1

Yes, native2ascii was removed in Java 9. From the bug report to remove it, "JEP 226 proposes to support UTF Properties file that will address the original motivation of creating the native2ascii tool." For more information visit JEP 226.