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-rw-r--r--docs/README4
-rw-r--r--src/library/scala/compat/Platform.scala7
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README
index f63f2e2fa9..26ec7b6204 100644
--- a/docs/README
+++ b/docs/README
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
Scala Software Distributions
----------------------------
-- scala-<major>.<minor>.<patch>.tar.bz2 Unis distribution
+- scala-<major>.<minor>.<patch>.tar.bz2 Unix distribution
- scala-<major>.<minor>.<patch>.tar.gz Unix distribution
- scala-<major>.<minor>.<patch>.zip Windows distribution
-The standard distributions require Java 1.4.x or above. If you don't
+The standard distributions require Java 1.5 or above. If you don't
know which version of Java you have, run the command "java -version".
diff --git a/src/library/scala/compat/Platform.scala b/src/library/scala/compat/Platform.scala
index b638e2b4db..8c1d84771a 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/compat/Platform.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/compat/Platform.scala
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
package scala.compat
-
import java.lang.System
import Predef._
@@ -52,9 +51,5 @@ object Platform {
def collectGarbage: Unit = System.gc()
/** The name of the default character set encoding as a string */
- def defaultCharsetName: String = {
- import java.io._
- new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream).getEncoding()
- }
-
+ def defaultCharsetName: String = java.nio.charset.Charset.defaultCharset.name
}