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>

8081347: Add @modules to jdk_core tests
Reviewed-by: alanb, joehw, lancea
Contributed-by: alexander.kulyakhtin@oracle.com, alan.bateman@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com

8080248: Coding regression in HKSCS charsets
Summary: to update the sp correctly when encoding supplementary characters
Reviewed-by: martin

8078334: Mark regression tests using randomness
Reviewed-by: xuelei, alanb

8029235: Update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 jdk repository for 2013
Summary: updated files with 2011, 2012 and 2013 years according to the file's last updated date
Reviewed-by: tbell, lancea, chegar

8027696: Incorrect copyright header in the tests
Reviewed-by: alanb, malenkov, mullan

7197491: update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 jdk repository
Reviewed-by: chegar, ksrini

7183053: Optimize DoubleByte charset for String.getBytes()/new String(byte[])
Summary: DoubleByte implements sun/nio.cs/ArrayDe/Encoder interface
Reviewed-by: alanb

7096080: UTF8 update and new CESU-8 charset
7082884: Incorrect UTF8 conversion for sequence ED 31
7082883: Incorrect UTF8 conversion for sequence fc 80 80 8f bf bf
Summary: Updated UTF8 and added CESU-8 to following the latest Standard
Reviewed-by: alanb

7040220: java/char_encodin Optimize UTF-8 charset for String.getBytes()/new String(byte[])
Summary: implement sun.nio.cs.ArrayEn/Decoer in utf8
Reviewed-by: alanb

6962318: Update copyright year
Reviewed-by: xdono

6963027: TEST_BUG: channels and buffer tests need to run in samevm mode
Reviewed-by: ohair, sherman, chegar

6943119: Rebrand source copyright notices
Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

6636323: Optimize handling of builtin charsets
6636319: Encoders should implement isLegalReplacement(byte[] repl)
Summary: optimized new String(byte[], cs/csn) and String.getBytes(cs/csn) for speed and memory consumption in singlebyte case.
Reviewed-by: alanb