libgcj/4216: Need support for character encoding aliases

[green@redhat.com]

>Number:         4216
>Category:       libgcj
>Synopsis:       Need support for character encoding aliases
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 03 18:06:00 PDT 2001
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>Originator:     green@redhat.com
>Release:        trunk
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>Description:
The runtime needs to have the notion of character encoding aliases... like ISO-8859-1 == 8859_1.

tomcat reads many xml files with assert an "ISO-8859-1" encoding, and the only work-around now is to hack this alias into libgcj.
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