JNode 0.2.7 Released

I don't think that the real problem is bad design as such. Rather output of UTF-8 to consoles has simply not been implemented.

Look at the following two methods in org.jnode.driver.console.spi.ConsoleOutputStream. As you can see they don't even try to deal with encoded output such as UTF-8. Instead, they just smash the bytes into chars and throw them at the screen. This code is definitely used for a raw PC consoles, and based on the behavior I guess it is also used for GUI consoles.

    /**
     * @param b
     * @throws IOException
     * @see java.io.OutputStream#write(int)
     */
    public void write(int b) throws IOException {
        console.putChar((char) b, fgColor);
    }

    public void write(byte[] b, int off, int len)
        throws IOException, NullPointerException, IndexOutOfBoundsException {
        if (off < 0 || len < 0 || off + len > b.length)
            throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException();

        int bi = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
            if (bi >= BUFFER_SIZE) {
                console.putChar(buffer, 0, BUFFER_SIZE, fgColor);
                bi = 0;
            }
            buffer[bi++] = (char) b[off + i];
        }

        console.putChar(buffer, 0, bi, fgColor);
    }