8186466: Fix accessibility and other minor issues in java.base
Reviewed-by: mchung, naoto, martin

8186052: Fix a11y and HTML issues in the java.base/java.lang[.*] packages
Reviewed-by: smarks

8181147: JNI_GetStringPlatformChars should have a fast path for UTF-8
8182451: Inconsistency between String.getBytes("Cp1252") and JNU_GetStringPlatformChars
Reviewed-by: martin, erikj, sherman, chegar, mikael

8180082: Broken javadoc links
Reviewed-by: mchung, bpb, chegar, ihse

8179592: Update tables in java.base to be HTML 5-friendly.
Reviewed-by: mchung, darcy, martin

8180128: small errors in String javadoc
Reviewed-by: lancea

8179367: update use of align, valign attributes in java.base to use style attribute
Reviewed-by: martin, mchung

8158168: Missing bounds checks for some String intrinsics
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, thartmann, sherman

8176865: overridden api has a wrong since value in java.base module
Reviewed-by: alanb

8166842: String.hashCode() has a non-benign data race
Reviewed-by: shade, alanb, martin

8146156: Inconsistent default locale in string formatter methods
Reviewed-by: sherman

8158312: Update String.join example code to use List convenience factory methods
Reviewed-by: lancea, smarks

8155792: Add @jls citations to java.lang.String
Reviewed-by: alanb

8155215: java.lang.String concatenation spec is unnecessarily strong
Reviewed-by: abuckley, sherman, chegar

8145468: update java.lang APIs with new deprecations
Reviewed-by: alanb, psandoz, lancea, forax, scolebourne, chegar, martin

Merge

8150180: String.value contents should be trusted
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, redestad, jrose, twisti

8151384: Improve String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER and remove sun.misc.ASCIICaseInsensitiveComparator
Reviewed-by: shade, sherman

8136494: Update "@since 1.9" to "@since 9" to match java.version.specification
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, lancea, prr

8142303: C2 compilation fails with "bad AD file"
Summary: Move range checks into intrinsics for String methods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, aph

8141132: JEP 254: Compact Strings
Summary: Adopt a more space-efficient internal representation for strings.
Reviewed-by: alanb, bdelsart, coleenp, iklam, jiangli, jrose, kevinw, naoto, pliden, roland, smarks, twisti
Contributed-by: Brent Christian <brent.christian@oracle.com>, Vivek Deshpande <vivek.r.deshpande@intel.com>, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>, Charlie Hunt <charlie.hunt@oracle.com>, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov@oracle.com>, Roger Riggs <roger.riggs@oracle.com>, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen@oracle.com>, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>, Sandhya Viswanathan <sandhya.viswanathan@intel.com>

8138824: java.lang.String: spec doesn't match impl when ignoring case - equalsIgnoreCase(), regionMatches()
Reviewed-by: naoto, rriggs

8132468: docs: replace <tt> tags (obsolete in html5) for java.io, java.lang, java.math
Reviewed-by: lancea, dfuchs, smarks

8076112: Add @HotSpotIntrinsicCandidate annotation to indicate methods for which Java Runtime has intrinsics
Summary: Annotate possibly intrinsified methods with @HotSpotIntrinsicCandidate. Add checks omitted by intrinsics to the library code. Add CheckIntrinsics flags to check consistency of intrinsics.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, thartmann, vlivanov, abuckley, darcy, ascarpino, briangoetz, alanb, aph, dnsimon

8058779: Faster implementation of String.replace(CharSequence, CharSequence)
Reviewed-by: sherman, plevart, forax, psandoz

8071571: Move substring of same string to slow path
Reviewed-by: martin

8061254: SPECjvm2008-XML performance regressions in 9-b33
Reviewed-by: alanb, shade

8071477: Better Spliterator implementations for String.chars() and String.codePoints()
Reviewed-by: sherman

8067471: Use private static final char[0] for empty Strings
Reviewed-by: igerasim, redestad, shade

8046219: (str spec) String(byte[], int, int, Charset) should be clearer when IndexOutOfBoundsException is thrown
Summary: to update the java doc to clarify the existing behavior
Reviewed-by: lancea

8060485: (str) contentEquals checks the String contents twice on mismatch
Reviewed-by: martin, chegar, alanb

8058643: (str) Re-examine hashCode implementation
Reviewed-by: martin, alanb, sherman, redestad

8056951: pico-optimize contains(Object) methods
Summary: use idiiom >= 0 consistently to check for valid index
Reviewed-by: mduigou

8054834: Modular Source Code
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, ihse, mduigou
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com