Greetings!
We are starting 2024 with JDK 22 as it has just entered Rampdown Phase 2 [1].
And with the initial JDK 22 Release Candidates now less than 2 weeks away (Feb.
8th) [2], it is time to shift our attention to JDK 23.
After multiple rounds of incubations and preview, the Foreign Function
Except in Java 18 we do need it, for two independent reasons:
1. UTF-8 is still not the guaranteed, runtime character set that the
various methods will use. JDKs can be configured to use a different
default character set. Bugs from incorrect default character set will
now be even harder to find si
