Deprecate Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING in favor of StandardCharsets.UTF_8

Change-Id: I621ba174235a6fb56236e54d24bce704bb5afb28
Signed-off-by: David Pursehouse <david.pursehouse@gmail.com>

20 files changed, 61 insertions, 53 deletions

diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.archive/src/org/eclipse/jgit/archive/TarFormat.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.archive/src/org/eclipse/jgit/archive/TarFormat.java
index 9ed60d941a..aee80d8307 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.archive/src/org/eclipse/jgit/archive/TarFormat.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.archive/src/org/eclipse/jgit/archive/TarFormat.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.archive;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public final class TarFormat extends BaseFormat implements
 	public ArchiveOutputStream createArchiveOutputStream(OutputStream s,
 			Map<String, Object> o) throws IOException {
 		TarArchiveOutputStream out = new TarArchiveOutputStream(s,
-				CHARACTER_ENCODING);
+				UTF_8.name());
 		out.setLongFileMode(TarArchiveOutputStream.LONGFILE_POSIX);
 		out.setBigNumberMode(TarArchiveOutputStream.BIGNUMBER_POSIX);
 		return applyFormatOptions(out, o);
@@ -99,8 +99,7 @@ public final class TarFormat extends BaseFormat implements
 		if (mode == FileMode.SYMLINK) {
 			final TarArchiveEntry entry = new TarArchiveEntry(
 					path, TarConstants.LF_SYMLINK);
-			entry.setLinkName(new String(
-					loader.getCachedBytes(100), CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+			entry.setLinkName(new String(loader.getCachedBytes(100), UTF_8));
 			out.putArchiveEntry(entry);
 			out.closeArchiveEntry();
 			return;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/InfoRefsServlet.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/InfoRefsServlet.java
index 1a9d192450..b084b0db54 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/InfoRefsServlet.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/InfoRefsServlet.java
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class InfoRefsServlet extends HttpServlet {
 		// Assume a dumb client and send back the dumb client
 		// version of the info/refs file.
 		rsp.setContentType(HttpSupport.TEXT_PLAIN);
-		rsp.setCharacterEncoding(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
+		rsp.setCharacterEncoding(UTF_8.name());
 
 		final Repository db = getRepository(req);
 		try (OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/ServletUtils.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/ServletUtils.java
index 9601c8cafa..b6d73b5591 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/ServletUtils.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/ServletUtils.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.http.server;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.ENCODING_GZIP;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.ENCODING_X_GZIP;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.HDR_ACCEPT_ENCODING;
@@ -191,9 +192,9 @@ public final class ServletUtils {
 	public static void sendPlainText(final String content,
 			final HttpServletRequest req, final HttpServletResponse rsp)
 			throws IOException {
-		final byte[] raw = content.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
+		final byte[] raw = content.getBytes(UTF_8);
 		rsp.setContentType(TEXT_PLAIN);
-		rsp.setCharacterEncoding(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
+		rsp.setCharacterEncoding(UTF_8.name());
 		send(raw, req, rsp);
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/http/test/SmartClientSmartServerTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/http/test/SmartClientSmartServerTest.java
index 51aa5f2ba7..d1c7737d4f 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/http/test/SmartClientSmartServerTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/http/test/SmartClientSmartServerTest.java
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ public class SmartClientSmartServerTest extends HttpTestCase {
 					throws IOException, ServletException {
 				final HttpServletResponse r = (HttpServletResponse) response;
 				r.setContentType("text/plain");
-				r.setCharacterEncoding(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
+				r.setCharacterEncoding(UTF_8.name());
 				try (PrintWriter w = r.getWriter()) {
 					w.print("OK");
 				}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/lib/LFSPointerTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/lib/LFSPointerTest.java
index a1283ddf41..146a25ed3d 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/lib/LFSPointerTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/lib/LFSPointerTest.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.lib;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class LFSPointerTest {
 			assertEquals(
 					"version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1\noid sha256:"
 							+ s + "\nsize 4\n",
-					baos.toString(CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+					baos.toString(UTF_8.name()));
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/ProxyConfigTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/ProxyConfigTest.java
index 40a223d92f..42530f3a34 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/ProxyConfigTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/ProxyConfigTest.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.pgm;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
@@ -47,7 +48,6 @@ import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ public class ProxyConfigTest {
 			while ((length = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
 				result.write(buffer, 0, length);
 			}
-			return result.toString(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
+			return result.toString(UTF_8.name());
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/MergeHeadMsgTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/MergeHeadMsgTest.java
index 347883f842..abf7d56819 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/MergeHeadMsgTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/MergeHeadMsgTest.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 
@@ -72,7 +73,9 @@ public class MergeHeadMsgTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		// same test again, this time with lower-level io
 		try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(
 				new File(db.getDirectory(), "MERGE_HEAD"));) {
-			fos.write("0000000000000000000000000000000000000000\n1c6db447abdbb291b25f07be38ea0b1bf94947c5\n".getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+			fos.write(
+					"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000\n1c6db447abdbb291b25f07be38ea0b1bf94947c5\n"
+							.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		}
 		assertEquals(db.readMergeHeads().size(), 2);
 		assertEquals(db.readMergeHeads().get(0), ObjectId.zeroId());
@@ -82,7 +85,7 @@ public class MergeHeadMsgTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		assertEquals(db.readMergeHeads(), null);
 		try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(
 				new File(db.getDirectory(), "MERGE_HEAD"))) {
-			fos.write(sampleId.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+			fos.write(sampleId.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		}
 		assertEquals(db.readMergeHeads().size(), 1);
 		assertEquals(db.readMergeHeads().get(0), ObjectId.fromString(sampleId));
@@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ public class MergeHeadMsgTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		assertFalse(new File(db.getDirectory(), "MERGE_MSG").exists());
 		try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(
 				new File(db.getDirectory(), Constants.MERGE_MSG))) {
-			fos.write(mergeMsg.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+			fos.write(mergeMsg.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		}
 		assertEquals(db.readMergeCommitMsg(), mergeMsg);
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RacyGitTests.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RacyGitTests.java
index 3542dfad2d..bb24994ee8 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RacyGitTests.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RacyGitTests.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
 import static java.lang.Long.valueOf;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.Assume.assumeTrue;
@@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ public class RacyGitTests extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	private File addToWorkDir(String path, String content) throws IOException {
 		File f = new File(db.getWorkTree(), path);
 		try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(f)) {
-			fos.write(content.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+			fos.write(content.getBytes(UTF_8));
 			return f;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/SquashCommitMsgTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/SquashCommitMsgTest.java
index 203c00e28a..f58ab06074 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/SquashCommitMsgTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/SquashCommitMsgTest.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ public class SquashCommitMsgTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		assertFalse(new File(db.getDirectory(), Constants.SQUASH_MSG).exists());
 		try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(
 				new File(db.getDirectory(), Constants.SQUASH_MSG))) {
-			fos.write(squashMsg.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+			fos.write(squashMsg.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		}
 		assertEquals(db.readSquashCommitMsg(), squashMsg);
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/MergeAlgorithmTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/MergeAlgorithmTest.java
index 5af62b6704..b131808318 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/MergeAlgorithmTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/MergeAlgorithmTest.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.merge;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
@@ -302,7 +303,7 @@ public class MergeAlgorithmTest {
 				T(commonBase), T(ours), T(theirs));
 		ByteArrayOutputStream bo=new ByteArrayOutputStream(50);
 		fmt.formatMerge(bo, r, "B", "O", "T", Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
-		return new String(bo.toByteArray(), Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
+		return new String(bo.toByteArray(), UTF_8);
 	}
 
 	public String t(String text) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineOutTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineOutTest.java
index 391a701b8e..ad8ae42536 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineOutTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineOutTest.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
@@ -50,7 +51,6 @@ import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ public class PacketLineOutTest {
 		assertEquals(1, flushCnt[0]);
 	}
 
-	private void assertBuffer(String exp) throws IOException {
+	private void assertBuffer(String exp) {
 		assertEquals(exp, new String(rawOut.toByteArray(),
-				Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+				UTF_8));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/SideBandOutputStreamTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/SideBandOutputStreamTest.java
index 4d3e162240..b6cf3564c1 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/SideBandOutputStreamTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/SideBandOutputStreamTest.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
 import static java.lang.Integer.valueOf;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.transport.SideBandOutputStream.CH_DATA;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.transport.SideBandOutputStream.CH_ERROR;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.transport.SideBandOutputStream.CH_PROGRESS;
@@ -59,7 +60,6 @@ import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.text.MessageFormat;
 
 import org.eclipse.jgit.internal.JGitText;
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -259,8 +259,7 @@ public class SideBandOutputStreamTest {
 		}
 	}
 
-	private void assertBuffer(String exp) throws IOException {
-		assertEquals(exp, new String(rawOut.toByteArray(),
-				Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+	private void assertBuffer(String exp) {
+		assertEquals(exp, new String(rawOut.toByteArray(), UTF_8));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/RebaseCommand.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/RebaseCommand.java
index 1783c4193e..9653c365b2 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/RebaseCommand.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/RebaseCommand.java
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.api;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
@@ -1015,8 +1017,7 @@ public class RebaseCommand extends GitCommand<RebaseResult> {
 			df.setRepository(repo);
 			df.format(commitToPick.getParent(0), commitToPick);
 		}
-		rebaseState.createFile(PATCH, new String(bos.toByteArray(),
-				Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+		rebaseState.createFile(PATCH, new String(bos.toByteArray(), UTF_8));
 		rebaseState.createFile(STOPPED_SHA,
 				repo.newObjectReader()
 				.abbreviate(
@@ -1733,7 +1734,7 @@ public class RebaseCommand extends GitCommand<RebaseResult> {
 				throws IOException {
 			File file = new File(parentDir, name);
 			try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file)) {
-				fos.write(content.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+				fos.write(content.getBytes(UTF_8));
 				fos.write('\n');
 			}
 		}
@@ -1741,7 +1742,7 @@ public class RebaseCommand extends GitCommand<RebaseResult> {
 		private static void appendToFile(File file, String content)
 				throws IOException {
 			try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file, true)) {
-				fos.write(content.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+				fos.write(content.getBytes(UTF_8));
 				fos.write('\n');
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/RepoCommand.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/RepoCommand.java
index 45a239da0e..5a73cdc067 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/RepoCommand.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/RepoCommand.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.gitrepo;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.DEFAULT_REMOTE_NAME;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.R_REMOTES;
 
@@ -606,8 +607,7 @@ public class RepoCommand extends GitCommand<RevCommit> {
 							}
 
 							objectId = inserter.insert(Constants.OBJ_BLOB,
-								link.getBytes(
-									Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+									link.getBytes(UTF_8));
 							dcEntry = new DirCacheEntry(linkfile.dest);
 							dcEntry.setObjectId(objectId);
 							dcEntry.setFileMode(FileMode.SYMLINK);
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ public class RepoCommand extends GitCommand<RevCommit> {
 				// create a new DirCacheEntry for .gitmodules file.
 				final DirCacheEntry dcEntry = new DirCacheEntry(Constants.DOT_GIT_MODULES);
 				ObjectId objectId = inserter.insert(Constants.OBJ_BLOB,
-						content.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+						content.getBytes(UTF_8));
 				dcEntry.setObjectId(objectId);
 				dcEntry.setFileMode(FileMode.REGULAR_FILE);
 				builder.add(dcEntry);
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ public class RepoCommand extends GitCommand<RevCommit> {
 					// create a new DirCacheEntry for .gitattributes file.
 					final DirCacheEntry dcEntryAttr = new DirCacheEntry(Constants.DOT_GIT_ATTRIBUTES);
 					ObjectId attrId = inserter.insert(Constants.OBJ_BLOB,
-							attributes.toString().getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+							attributes.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 					dcEntryAttr.setObjectId(attrId);
 					dcEntryAttr.setFileMode(FileMode.REGULAR_FILE);
 					builder.add(dcEntryAttr);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Constants.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Constants.java
index ed0055416b..4c55196961 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Constants.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Constants.java
@@ -232,11 +232,17 @@ public final class Constants {
 	 *
 	 * @deprecated Use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#UTF_8} directly
 	 *             instead.
-	 **/
+	 */
 	@Deprecated
 	public static final Charset CHARSET;
 
-	/** Native character encoding for commit messages, file names... */
+	/**
+	 * Native character encoding for commit messages, file names...
+	 *
+	 * @deprecated Use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#UTF_8} directly
+	 *             instead.
+	 */
+	@Deprecated
 	public static final String CHARACTER_ENCODING;
 
 	/** Default main branch name */
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Repository.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Repository.java
index d73c05e243..2a2699f906 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Repository.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Repository.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.LOCK_SUFFIX;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -1965,7 +1966,7 @@ public abstract class Repository implements AutoCloseable {
 	private void writeCommitMsg(File msgFile, String msg) throws IOException {
 		if (msg != null) {
 			try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(msgFile)) {
-				fos.write(msg.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+				fos.write(msg.getBytes(UTF_8));
 			}
 		} else {
 			FileUtils.delete(msgFile, FileUtils.SKIP_MISSING);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/URIish.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/URIish.java
index 026fd819c4..70fb1f0e56 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/URIish.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/URIish.java
@@ -48,10 +48,11 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.Serializable;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.BitSet;
@@ -282,12 +283,7 @@ public class URIish implements Serializable {
 		if (s.indexOf('%') < 0)
 			return s;
 
-		byte[] bytes;
-		try {
-			bytes = s.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
-		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-			throw new RuntimeException(e); // can't happen
-		}
+		byte[] bytes = s.getBytes(UTF_8);
 
 		byte[] os = new byte[bytes.length];
 		int j = 0;
@@ -335,12 +331,7 @@ public class URIish implements Serializable {
 		if (s == null)
 			return null;
 		ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(s.length());
-		byte[] bytes;
-		try {
-			bytes = s.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
-		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-			throw new RuntimeException(e); // cannot happen
-		}
+		byte[] bytes = s.getBytes(UTF_8);
 		for (int i = 0; i < bytes.length; ++i) {
 			int b = bytes[i] & 0xFF;
 			if (b <= 32 || (encodeNonAscii && b > 127) || b == '%'
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/FileTreeIterator.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/FileTreeIterator.java
index 24b9ac086e..3d25c2314e 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/FileTreeIterator.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/FileTreeIterator.java
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
@@ -412,7 +414,7 @@ public class FileTreeIterator extends WorkingTreeIterator {
 		public InputStream openInputStream() throws IOException {
 			if (attributes.isSymbolicLink()) {
 				return new ByteArrayInputStream(fs.readSymLink(getFile())
-						.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+						.getBytes(UTF_8));
 			} else {
 				return new FileInputStream(getFile());
 			}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java
index e5c2922cfa..7f0308f071 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.Closeable;
@@ -1172,7 +1174,7 @@ public abstract class FS {
 			OutputStream outRedirect, OutputStream errRedirect, String stdinArgs)
 			throws IOException, InterruptedException {
 		InputStream in = (stdinArgs == null) ? null : new ByteArrayInputStream(
-				stdinArgs.getBytes(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+						stdinArgs.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		return runProcess(processBuilder, outRedirect, errRedirect, in);
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/HttpSupport.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/HttpSupport.java
index 6f92b37853..9190a5915a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/HttpSupport.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/HttpSupport.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ public class HttpSupport {
 		if (key == null || key.length() == 0)
 			return;
 		try {
-			urlstr.append(URLEncoder.encode(key, CHARACTER_ENCODING));
+			urlstr.append(URLEncoder.encode(key, UTF_8.name()));
 		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 			throw new RuntimeException(JGitText.get().couldNotURLEncodeToUTF8, e);
 		}