Deprecate Constants.CHARSET in favor of StandardCharsets.UTF_8

Change-Id: I3b748620f067582afef20f144feebe40d0332be2 Signed-off-by: David Pursehouse <david.pursehouse@gmail.com>
author: David Pursehouse 2018-09-04 01:53:10 +0000
committer: David Pursehouse 2018-09-04 01:53:10 +0000
commit: 30c6c7542190c149e2aee792f992a312a5fc5793 (patch)
tree: 12a8858313ee88ebf87a1a30840128d1a2e19a99
parent: 685f8c8dbe9e2f1e139a55970588f92d5482b3ba (diff)
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105 files changed, 442 insertions, 397 deletions
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/InfoRefsServlet.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/InfoRefsServlet.java
index 0f4633b5e3..1a9d192450 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/InfoRefsServlet.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/InfoRefsServlet.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.http.server;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.http.server.ServletUtils.getRepository;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ class InfoRefsServlet extends HttpServlet {
 		final Repository db = getRepository(req);
 		try (OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(
 				new SmartOutputStream(req, rsp, true),
-				Constants.CHARSET)) {
+				UTF_8)) {
 			final RefAdvertiser adv = new RefAdvertiser() {
 				@Override
 				protected void writeOne(CharSequence line)
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/http/test/SmartClientSmartServerTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/http/test/SmartClientSmartServerTest.java
index 42db0fecde..51aa5f2ba7 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/http/test/SmartClientSmartServerTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/http/test/SmartClientSmartServerTest.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.http.test;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.HDR_CONTENT_ENCODING;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.HDR_CONTENT_LENGTH;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.HDR_CONTENT_TYPE;
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ public class SmartClientSmartServerTest extends HttpTestCase {
 	public void testInvalidWant() throws Exception {
 		@SuppressWarnings("resource")
 		ObjectId id = new ObjectInserter.Formatter().idFor(Constants.OBJ_BLOB,
-				"testInvalidWant".getBytes(CHARSET));
+				"testInvalidWant".getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		Repository dst = createBareRepository();
 		try (Transport t = Transport.open(dst, remoteURI);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/JGitTestUtil.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/JGitTestUtil.java
index a102da1f49..b59b71499d 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/JGitTestUtil.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/JGitTestUtil.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.junit;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ public abstract class JGitTestUtil {
 			throws IOException {
 		FileUtils.mkdirs(f.getParentFile(), true);
 		try (Writer w = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(f),
-				CHARSET)) {
+				UTF_8)) {
 			w.write(body);
 		}
 	}
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ public abstract class JGitTestUtil {
 	 */
 	public static String read(File file) throws IOException {
 		final byte[] body = IO.readFully(file);
-		return new String(body, 0, body.length, CHARSET);
+		return new String(body, 0, body.length, UTF_8);
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase.java
index 6cdd0eb23c..12b2169500 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.junit;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ public abstract class LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase {
 			if (0 != (includedOptions & CONTENT)) {
 				sb.append(", content:"
 						+ new String(repo.open(entry.getObjectId(),
-						Constants.OBJ_BLOB).getCachedBytes(), CHARSET));
+								Constants.OBJ_BLOB).getCachedBytes(), UTF_8));
 			}
 			if (0 != (includedOptions & ASSUME_UNCHANGED))
 				sb.append(", assume-unchanged:"
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/RepositoryTestCase.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/RepositoryTestCase.java
index e983e5dfb6..95fe18b83c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/RepositoryTestCase.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/RepositoryTestCase.java
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.junit;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.io.File;
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ public abstract class RepositoryTestCase extends LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase {
 	protected static void checkFile(File f, String checkData)
 			throws IOException {
 		try (Reader r = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(f),
-				CHARSET)) {
+				UTF_8)) {
 			if (checkData.length() > 0) {
 				char[] data = new char[checkData.length()];
 				assertEquals(data.length, r.read(data));
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/TestRepository.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/TestRepository.java
index 49715e5596..c9fa2f506c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/TestRepository.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/TestRepository.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.junit;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ public class TestRepository<R extends Repository> {
 	 * @throws Exception
 	 */
 	public RevBlob blob(String content) throws Exception {
-		return blob(content.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		return blob(content.getBytes(UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/LfsServerTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/LfsServerTest.java
index 50a06f94d6..10823b8788 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/LfsServerTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/LfsServerTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server.fs;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
@@ -211,11 +211,11 @@ public abstract class LfsServerTest {
 				if (buf.hasArray()) {
 					error = new String(buf.array(),
 							buf.arrayOffset() + buf.position(), buf.remaining(),
-							CHARSET);
+							UTF_8);
 				} else {
 					final byte[] b = new byte[buf.remaining()];
 					buf.duplicate().get(b);
-					error = new String(b, CHARSET);
+					error = new String(b, UTF_8);
 				}
 			} catch (IOException e) {
 				error = statusLine.getReasonPhrase();
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/LfsProtocolServlet.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/LfsProtocolServlet.java
index d22d45967e..c7f55dd3c1 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/LfsProtocolServlet.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/LfsProtocolServlet.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.apache.http.HttpStatus.SC_FORBIDDEN;
 import static org.apache.http.HttpStatus.SC_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE;
 import static org.apache.http.HttpStatus.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
@@ -202,10 +202,10 @@ public abstract class LfsProtocolServlet extends HttpServlet {
 	protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
 			throws ServletException, IOException {
 		Writer w = new BufferedWriter(
-				new OutputStreamWriter(res.getOutputStream(), CHARSET));
+				new OutputStreamWriter(res.getOutputStream(), UTF_8));
 
 		Reader r = new BufferedReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(req.getInputStream(), CHARSET));
+				new InputStreamReader(req.getInputStream(), UTF_8));
 		LfsRequest request = LfsGson.fromJson(r, LfsRequest.class);
 		String path = req.getPathInfo();
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/s3/SignerV4.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/s3/SignerV4.java
index 374a560581..b21c94e4e6 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/s3/SignerV4.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/s3/SignerV4.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server.s3;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.HDR_AUTHORIZATION;
 
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
@@ -359,13 +359,13 @@ class SignerV4 {
 
 	private static byte[] hash(String s) {
 		MessageDigest md = Constants.newMessageDigest();
-		md.update(s.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		md.update(s.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		return md.digest();
 	}
 
 	private static byte[] sign(String stringData, byte[] key) {
 		try {
-			byte[] data = stringData.getBytes(CHARSET);
+			byte[] data = stringData.getBytes(UTF_8);
 			Mac mac = Mac.getInstance(HMACSHA256);
 			mac.init(new SecretKeySpec(key, HMACSHA256));
 			return mac.doFinal(data);
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ class SignerV4 {
 	private static String urlEncode(String url, boolean keepPathSlash) {
 		String encoded;
 		try {
-			encoded = URLEncoder.encode(url, CHARSET.name());
+			encoded = URLEncoder.encode(url, UTF_8.name());
 		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 			throw new RuntimeException(LfsServerText.get().unsupportedUtf8, e);
 		}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/test/LongObjectIdTestUtils.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/test/LongObjectIdTestUtils.java
index e3c6ef80bc..c3c3859467 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/test/LongObjectIdTestUtils.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/test/LongObjectIdTestUtils.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class LongObjectIdTestUtils {
 	 */
 	public static LongObjectId hash(String s) {
 		MessageDigest md = Constants.newMessageDigest();
-		md.update(s.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		md.update(s.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		return LongObjectId.fromRaw(md.digest());
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/lib/LongObjectIdTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/lib/LongObjectIdTest.java
index 8642e7eb3b..92a8176f57 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/lib/LongObjectIdTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/lib/LongObjectIdTest.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.lib;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.US_ASCII;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
@@ -62,7 +63,6 @@ import java.util.Locale;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.junit.JGitTestUtil;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.errors.InvalidLongObjectIdException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.test.LongObjectIdTestUtils;
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.FileUtils;
 import org.junit.AfterClass;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ public class LongObjectIdTest {
 		AnyLongObjectId id1 = LongObjectIdTestUtils.hash("test");
 		ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(64);
 		try (OutputStreamWriter w = new OutputStreamWriter(os,
-				Constants.CHARSET)) {
+				UTF_8)) {
 			id1.copyTo(w);
 		}
 		assertEquals(id1, LongObjectId.fromString(os.toByteArray(), 0));
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ public class LongObjectIdTest {
 		AnyLongObjectId id1 = LongObjectIdTestUtils.hash("test");
 		ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(64);
 		try (OutputStreamWriter w = new OutputStreamWriter(os,
-				Constants.CHARSET)) {
+				UTF_8)) {
 			char[] buf = new char[64];
 			id1.copyTo(buf, w);
 		}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/LfsPointer.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/LfsPointer.java
index 4f959409fc..0e3830c098 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/LfsPointer.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/LfsPointer.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lfs;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ public class LfsPointer implements Comparable<LfsPointer> {
 	 */
 	public void encode(OutputStream out) {
 		try (PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(out, false,
-				CHARSET.name())) {
+				UTF_8.name())) {
 			ps.print("version "); //$NON-NLS-1$
 			ps.print(VERSION + "\n"); //$NON-NLS-1$
 			ps.print("oid " + HASH_FUNCTION_NAME + ":"); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ public class LfsPointer implements Comparable<LfsPointer> {
 			ps.print(size + "\n"); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 			// should not happen, we are using a standard charset
-			throw new UnsupportedCharsetException(CHARSET.name());
+			throw new UnsupportedCharsetException(UTF_8.name());
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ public class LfsPointer implements Comparable<LfsPointer> {
 		long sz = -1;
 
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(in, CHARSET))) {
+				new InputStreamReader(in, UTF_8))) {
 			for (String s = br.readLine(); s != null; s = br.readLine()) {
 				if (s.startsWith("#") || s.length() == 0) { //$NON-NLS-1$
 					continue;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/LfsPrePushHook.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/LfsPrePushHook.java
index 4da3a74f2f..3e6a26159b 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/LfsPrePushHook.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/LfsPrePushHook.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lfs;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.Protocol.OPERATION_UPLOAD;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.internal.LfsConnectionFactory.toRequest;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.transport.http.HttpConnection.HTTP_OK;
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ public class LfsPrePushHook extends PrePushHook {
 		}
 		Gson gson = Protocol.gson();
 		api.getOutputStream().write(
-				gson.toJson(toRequest(OPERATION_UPLOAD, res)).getBytes(CHARSET));
+				gson.toJson(toRequest(OPERATION_UPLOAD, res)).getBytes(UTF_8));
 		int responseCode = api.getResponseCode();
 		if (responseCode != HTTP_OK) {
 			throw new IOException(
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ public class LfsPrePushHook extends PrePushHook {
 	private void uploadContents(HttpConnection api,
 			Map<String, LfsPointer> oid2ptr) throws IOException {
 		try (JsonReader reader = new JsonReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(api.getInputStream(), CHARSET))) {
+				new InputStreamReader(api.getInputStream(), UTF_8))) {
 			for (Protocol.ObjectInfo o : parseObjects(reader)) {
 				if (o.actions == null) {
 					continue;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/SmudgeFilter.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/SmudgeFilter.java
index 6a758cfd44..fac87c177e 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/SmudgeFilter.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/SmudgeFilter.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lfs;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ public class SmudgeFilter extends FilterCommand {
 				.write(gson
 						.toJson(LfsConnectionFactory
 								.toRequest(Protocol.OPERATION_DOWNLOAD, res))
-						.getBytes(CHARSET));
+						.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		int responseCode = lfsServerConn.getResponseCode();
 		if (responseCode != HttpConnection.HTTP_OK) {
 			throw new IOException(
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ public class SmudgeFilter extends FilterCommand {
 		}
 		try (JsonReader reader = new JsonReader(
 				new InputStreamReader(lfsServerConn.getInputStream(),
-						CHARSET))) {
+						UTF_8))) {
 			Protocol.Response resp = gson.fromJson(reader,
 					Protocol.Response.class);
 			for (Protocol.ObjectInfo o : resp.objects) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/ArchiveTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/ArchiveTest.java
index ecc00d37f5..47eb156c55 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/ArchiveTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/ArchiveTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.pgm;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ public class ArchiveTest extends CLIRepositoryTestCase {
 
 	private BufferedReader readFromProcess(Process proc) throws Exception {
 		return new BufferedReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream(), CHARSET));
+				new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream(), UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	private void grepForEntry(String name, String mode, String... cmdline)
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ public class ArchiveTest extends CLIRepositoryTestCase {
 			// found!
 			List<String> l = new ArrayList<>();
 			BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
-					new InputStreamReader(in, CHARSET));
+					new InputStreamReader(in, UTF_8));
 			String line;
 			while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
 				l.add(line);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/CommandCatalog.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/CommandCatalog.java
index 2b0e5a717d..dbdccc10e2 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/CommandCatalog.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/CommandCatalog.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.pgm;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ public class CommandCatalog {
 
 	private void scan(URL cUrl) {
 		try (BufferedReader cIn = new BufferedReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(cUrl.openStream(), CHARSET))) {
+				new InputStreamReader(cUrl.openStream(), UTF_8))) {
 			String line;
 			while ((line = cIn.readLine()) != null) {
 				if (line.length() > 0 && !line.startsWith("#")) //$NON-NLS-1$
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/Main.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/Main.java
index 6fa92d3b0b..5ed286baa9 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/Main.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/Main.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.pgm;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ public class Main {
 	}
 
 	PrintWriter createErrorWriter() {
-		return new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.err, CHARSET));
+		return new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.err, UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	private void execute(String[] argv) throws Exception {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/BenchmarkReftable.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/BenchmarkReftable.java
index 575a122158..248eaac8ad 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/BenchmarkReftable.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/BenchmarkReftable.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.debug;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.HEAD;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.MASTER;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.R_HEADS;
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ class BenchmarkReftable extends TextBuiltin {
 			throws IOException, FileNotFoundException {
 		RefList.Builder<Ref> list = new RefList.Builder<>();
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
-				new FileInputStream(lsRemotePath), CHARSET))) {
+				new FileInputStream(lsRemotePath), UTF_8))) {
 			Ref last = null;
 			String line;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/RebuildCommitGraph.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/RebuildCommitGraph.java
index 2d16fefa71..8948c27537 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/RebuildCommitGraph.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/RebuildCommitGraph.java
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.debug;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
@@ -141,7 +143,7 @@ class RebuildCommitGraph extends TextBuiltin {
 		try (RevWalk rw = new RevWalk(db);
 				final BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
 						new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(graph),
-								Constants.CHARSET))) {
+								UTF_8))) {
 			String line;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
 				final String[] parts = line.split("[ \t]{1,}"); //$NON-NLS-1$
@@ -280,7 +282,7 @@ class RebuildCommitGraph extends TextBuiltin {
 		try (RevWalk rw = new RevWalk(db);
 				BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
 						new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(refList),
-								Constants.CHARSET))) {
+								UTF_8))) {
 			String line;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
 				final String[] parts = line.split("[ \t]{1,}"); //$NON-NLS-1$
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/WriteReftable.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/WriteReftable.java
index c5ea028be8..6cbc1b082b 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/WriteReftable.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug/WriteReftable.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.debug;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.HEAD;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.MASTER;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.R_HEADS;
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ class WriteReftable extends TextBuiltin {
 	static List<Ref> readRefs(String inputFile) throws IOException {
 		List<Ref> refs = new ArrayList<>();
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(inputFile), CHARSET))) {
+				new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(inputFile), UTF_8))) {
 			String line;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
 				ObjectId id = ObjectId.fromString(line.substring(0, 40));
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ class WriteReftable extends TextBuiltin {
 
 		List<LogEntry> log = new ArrayList<>();
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(logPath), CHARSET))) {
+				new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(logPath), UTF_8))) {
 			@SuppressWarnings("nls")
 			Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("([^,]+)" // 1: ref
 					+ ",([0-9]+(?:[.][0-9]+)?)" // 2: time
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/exttst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/CGitVsJGitRandomIgnorePatternTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/exttst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/CGitVsJGitRandomIgnorePatternTest.java
index 4d9e864227..438d2d625b 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/exttst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/CGitVsJGitRandomIgnorePatternTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/exttst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/CGitVsJGitRandomIgnorePatternTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.ignore;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ public class CGitVsJGitRandomIgnorePatternTest {
 			this.gitDir = gitDir;
 			this.pattern = pattern;
 			Files.write(FileUtils.toPath(new File(gitDir, ".gitignore")),
-					(pattern + "\n").getBytes(CHARSET), StandardOpenOption.CREATE,
+					(pattern + "\n").getBytes(UTF_8), StandardOpenOption.CREATE,
 					StandardOpenOption.TRUNCATE_EXISTING,
 					StandardOpenOption.WRITE);
 		}
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ public class CGitVsJGitRandomIgnorePatternTest {
 			Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command, new String[0],
 					gitDir);
 			try (OutputStream out = proc.getOutputStream()) {
-				out.write((path + "\n").getBytes(CHARSET));
+				out.write((path + "\n").getBytes(UTF_8));
 				out.flush();
 			}
 			return proc;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/exttst/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/EGitPatchHistoryTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/exttst/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/EGitPatchHistoryTest.java
index 79d8d0e10b..f597f2fe3c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/exttst/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/EGitPatchHistoryTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/exttst/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/EGitPatchHistoryTest.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.patch;
 
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
@@ -56,7 +57,6 @@ import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.MutableInteger;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.TemporaryBuffer;
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ public class EGitPatchHistoryTest {
 				i.added = RawParseUtils.parseBase10(buf, ptr.value, ptr);
 				i.deleted = RawParseUtils.parseBase10(buf, ptr.value + 1, ptr);
 				final int eol = RawParseUtils.nextLF(buf, ptr.value);
-				final String name = RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET,
+				final String name = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8,
 						buf, ptr.value + 1, eol - 1);
 				files.put(name, i);
 				ptr.value = eol;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/EolStreamTypeUtilTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/EolStreamTypeUtilTest.java
index bb303cc411..1e3a39aad8 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/EolStreamTypeUtilTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/EolStreamTypeUtilTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.api;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.CoreConfig.EolStreamType.AUTO_CRLF;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.CoreConfig.EolStreamType.AUTO_LF;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.CoreConfig.EolStreamType.DIRECT;
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ public class EolStreamTypeUtilTest {
 			EolStreamType streamTypeWithBinaryCheck, String output,
 			String expectedConversion) throws Exception {
 		ByteArrayOutputStream b;
-		byte[] outputBytes = output.getBytes(CHARSET);
-		byte[] expectedConversionBytes = expectedConversion.getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] outputBytes = output.getBytes(UTF_8);
+		byte[] expectedConversionBytes = expectedConversion.getBytes(UTF_8);
 
 		// test using output text and assuming it was declared TEXT
 		b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
@@ -277,8 +277,8 @@ public class EolStreamTypeUtilTest {
 	private void testCheckin(EolStreamType streamTypeText,
 			EolStreamType streamTypeWithBinaryCheck, String input,
 			String expectedConversion) throws Exception {
-		byte[] inputBytes = input.getBytes(CHARSET);
-		byte[] expectedConversionBytes = expectedConversion.getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] inputBytes = input.getBytes(UTF_8);
+		byte[] expectedConversionBytes = expectedConversion.getBytes(UTF_8);
 
 		// test using input text and assuming it was declared TEXT
 		try (InputStream in = EolStreamTypeUtil.wrapInputStream(
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/NotesCommandTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/NotesCommandTest.java
index e234aa339c..6e06e9545a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/NotesCommandTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/NotesCommandTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.api;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.util.List;
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ public class NotesCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		git.notesAdd().setObjectId(commit2).setMessage("data").call();
 		Note note = git.notesShow().setObjectId(commit2).call();
 		String content = new String(db.open(note.getData()).getCachedBytes(),
-				CHARSET);
+				UTF_8);
 		assertEquals(content, "data");
 
 		git.notesRemove().setObjectId(commit2).call();
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/PullCommandTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/PullCommandTest.java
index 0b0e3bf3ea..9461c42500 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/PullCommandTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/PullCommandTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.api;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ public class PullCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	private static void writeToFile(File actFile, String string)
 			throws IOException {
 		try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(actFile)) {
-			fos.write(string.getBytes(CHARSET));
+			fos.write(string.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ public class PullCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 				bos.write(buffer, 0, read);
 				read = fis.read(buffer);
 			}
-			String content = new String(bos.toByteArray(), CHARSET);
+			String content = new String(bos.toByteArray(), UTF_8);
 			assertEquals(string, content);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/PullCommandWithRebaseTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/PullCommandWithRebaseTest.java
index b349c66cab..913b4ac434 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/PullCommandWithRebaseTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/PullCommandWithRebaseTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.api;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ public class PullCommandWithRebaseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	private static void writeToFile(File actFile, String string)
 			throws IOException {
 		try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(actFile)) {
-			fos.write(string.getBytes(CHARSET));
+			fos.write(string.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ public class PullCommandWithRebaseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 				bos.write(buffer, 0, read);
 				read = fis.read(buffer);
 			}
-			String content = new String(bos.toByteArray(), CHARSET);
+			String content = new String(bos.toByteArray(), UTF_8);
 			assertEquals(string, content);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/RebaseCommandTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/RebaseCommandTest.java
index 621e061c79..4401bcedb3 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/RebaseCommandTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/api/RebaseCommandTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.api;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.not;
 import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
@@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ public class RebaseCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		assertEquals("GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@123456789 -0100'", lines[2]);
 
 		PersonIdent parsedIdent = git.rebase().parseAuthor(
-				convertedAuthor.getBytes(CHARSET));
+				convertedAuthor.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		assertEquals(ident.getName(), parsedIdent.getName());
 		assertEquals(ident.getEmailAddress(), parsedIdent.getEmailAddress());
 		// this is rounded to the last second
@@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@ public class RebaseCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		assertEquals("GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@123456789 +0930'", lines[2]);
 
 		parsedIdent = git.rebase().parseAuthor(
-				convertedAuthor.getBytes(CHARSET));
+				convertedAuthor.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		assertEquals(ident.getName(), parsedIdent.getName());
 		assertEquals(ident.getEmailAddress(), parsedIdent.getEmailAddress());
 		assertEquals(123456789000L, parsedIdent.getWhen().getTime());
@@ -2164,7 +2164,7 @@ public class RebaseCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		int count = 0;
 		File todoFile = getTodoFile();
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
-				new FileInputStream(todoFile), CHARSET))) {
+				new FileInputStream(todoFile), UTF_8))) {
 			String line = br.readLine();
 			while (line != null) {
 				int firstBlank = line.indexOf(' ');
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/attributes/CGitAttributesTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/attributes/CGitAttributesTest.java
index 344d1af6a0..b6615075c0 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/attributes/CGitAttributesTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/attributes/CGitAttributesTest.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.attributes;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
@@ -57,7 +58,6 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.eclipse.jgit.junit.RepositoryTestCase;
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.StoredConfig;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.FileTreeIterator;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.TreeWalk;
@@ -127,14 +127,14 @@ public class CGitAttributesTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		builder.directory(db.getWorkTree());
 		builder.environment().put("HOME", fs.userHome().getAbsolutePath());
 		ExecutionResult result = fs.execute(builder, new ByteArrayInputStream(
-				input.toString().getBytes(Constants.CHARSET)));
+				input.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)));
 		String errorOut = toString(result.getStderr());
 		assertEquals("External git failed", "exit 0\n",
 				"exit " + result.getRc() + '\n' + errorOut);
 		LinkedHashMap<String, Attributes> map = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 		try (BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
 				new BufferedInputStream(result.getStdout().openInputStream()),
-				Constants.CHARSET))) {
+				UTF_8))) {
 			r.lines().forEach(line -> {
 				// Parse the line and add to result map
 				int start = 0;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/AbstractDiffTestCase.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/AbstractDiffTestCase.java
index 32f34213ec..0f13a68b25 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/AbstractDiffTestCase.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/AbstractDiffTestCase.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.diff;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
@@ -240,6 +240,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractDiffTestCase {
 			r.append(text.charAt(i));
 			r.append('\n');
 		}
-		return new RawText(r.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		return new RawText(r.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/RawTextTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/RawTextTest.java
index 58a8b2d468..5885d9b7e6 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/RawTextTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/RawTextTest.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.diff;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ public class RawTextTest {
 		e = c.reduceCommonStartEnd(t("abQxy"), t("abRxy"), e);
 		assertEquals(new Edit(2, 3, 2, 3), e);
 
-		RawText a = new RawText("p\na b\nQ\nc d\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		RawText b = new RawText("p\na  b \nR\n c  d \n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		RawText a = new RawText("p\na b\nQ\nc d\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		RawText b = new RawText("p\na  b \nR\n c  d \n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		e = new Edit(0, 4, 0, 4);
 		e = RawTextComparator.WS_IGNORE_ALL.reduceCommonStartEnd(a, b, e);
 		assertEquals(new Edit(2, 3, 2, 3), e);
@@ -160,14 +160,14 @@ public class RawTextTest {
 		RawText b;
 		Edit e;
 
-		a = new RawText("R\n y\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b = new RawText("S\n\n y\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		a = new RawText("R\n y\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b = new RawText("S\n\n y\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		e = new Edit(0, 2, 0, 3);
 		e = RawTextComparator.DEFAULT.reduceCommonStartEnd(a, b, e);
 		assertEquals(new Edit(0, 1, 0, 2), e);
 
-		a = new RawText("S\n\n y\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b = new RawText("R\n y\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		a = new RawText("S\n\n y\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b = new RawText("R\n y\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		e = new Edit(0, 3, 0, 2);
 		e = RawTextComparator.DEFAULT.reduceCommonStartEnd(a, b, e);
 		assertEquals(new Edit(0, 2, 0, 1), e);
@@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ public class RawTextTest {
 		RawText a;
 		RawText b;
 		Edit e;
-		a = new RawText("start".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b = new RawText("start of line".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		a = new RawText("start".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b = new RawText("start of line".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		e = new Edit(0, 1, 0, 1);
 		e = RawTextComparator.DEFAULT.reduceCommonStartEnd(a, b, e);
 		assertEquals(new Edit(0, 1, 0, 1), e);
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ public class RawTextTest {
 		RawText a;
 		RawText b;
 		Edit e;
-		a = new RawText("start".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b = new RawText("start of\nlastline".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		a = new RawText("start".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b = new RawText("start of\nlastline".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		e = new Edit(0, 1, 0, 2);
 		e = RawTextComparator.DEFAULT.reduceCommonStartEnd(a, b, e);
 		assertEquals(new Edit(0, 1, 0, 2), e);
@@ -250,6 +250,6 @@ public class RawTextTest {
 			r.append(text.charAt(i));
 			r.append('\n');
 		}
-		return new RawText(r.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		return new RawText(r.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/SimilarityIndexTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/SimilarityIndexTest.java
index 51a6f8121c..f168e83284 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/SimilarityIndexTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/SimilarityIndexTest.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.diff;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ public class SimilarityIndexTest {
 				+ "A\n" //
 				+ "B\n" //
 				+ "B\n" //
-				+ "B\n").getBytes(CHARSET);
+				+ "B\n").getBytes(UTF_8);
 		SimilarityIndex si = new SimilarityIndex();
 		si.hash(new ByteArrayInputStream(in), in.length, false);
 		assertEquals(2, si.size());
@@ -130,12 +130,12 @@ public class SimilarityIndexTest {
 				+ "D\r\n" //
 				+ "B\r\n";
 		SimilarityIndex src = new SimilarityIndex();
-		byte[] bytes1 = text.getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] bytes1 = text.getBytes(UTF_8);
 		src.hash(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes1), bytes1.length, true);
 		src.sort();
 
 		SimilarityIndex dst = new SimilarityIndex();
-		byte[] bytes2 = text.replace("\r", "").getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] bytes2 = text.replace("\r", "").getBytes(UTF_8);
 		dst.hash(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes2), bytes2.length, true);
 		dst.sort();
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCGitCompatabilityTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCGitCompatabilityTest.java
index c362e7497c..847d0abad4 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCGitCompatabilityTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCGitCompatabilityTest.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.dircache;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ public class DirCacheCGitCompatabilityTest extends LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase {
 	private static Map<String, CGitIndexRecord> readLsFiles() throws Exception {
 		final LinkedHashMap<String, CGitIndexRecord> r = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
-				new FileInputStream(pathOf("gitgit.lsfiles")), CHARSET))) {
+				new FileInputStream(pathOf("gitgit.lsfiles")), UTF_8))) {
 			String line;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
 				final CGitIndexRecord cr = new CGitIndexRecord(line);
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ public class DirCacheCGitCompatabilityTest extends LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase {
 	private static Map<String, CGitLsTreeRecord> readLsTree() throws Exception {
 		final LinkedHashMap<String, CGitLsTreeRecord> r = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
-				new FileInputStream(pathOf("gitgit.lstree")), CHARSET))) {
+				new FileInputStream(pathOf("gitgit.lstree")), UTF_8))) {
 			String line;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
 				final CGitLsTreeRecord cr = new CGitLsTreeRecord(line);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/ManifestParserTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/ManifestParserTest.java
index 024f054807..88a077630e 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/ManifestParserTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/ManifestParserTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.gitrepo;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public class ManifestParserTest {
 
 		ManifestParser parser = new ManifestParser(
 				null, null, "master", baseUrl, null, null);
-		parser.read(new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)));
+		parser.read(new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)));
 		// Unfiltered projects should have them all.
 		results.clear();
 		results.add("foo");
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ public class ManifestParserTest {
 				baseUrl, null, null);
 		try {
 			parser.read(new ByteArrayInputStream(
-					xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)));
+					xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)));
 			fail("ManifestParser did not throw exception for missing fetch");
 		} catch (IOException e) {
 			assertTrue(e.getCause() instanceof SAXException);
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ public class ManifestParserTest {
 		ManifestParser parser = new ManifestParser(null, null, "master",
 				"https://git.google.com/", null, null);
 		parser.read(new ByteArrayInputStream(
-				xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)));
+				xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)));
 
 		assertEquals(Stream.of("bar", "baz").collect(Collectors.toSet()),
 				parser.getProjects().stream().map(RepoProject::getName)
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/RepoCommandTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/RepoCommandTest.java
index 1eca587bfb..92f0cf6196 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/RepoCommandTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/gitrepo/RepoCommandTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.gitrepo;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ public class RepoCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 			RevCommit commit = cmd
 					.setInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(
-							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)))
+							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)))
 					.setRemoteReader(repos).setURI("platform/")
 					.setTargetURI("platform/superproject")
 					.setRecordRemoteBranch(true).setRecordSubmoduleLabels(true)
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ public class RepoCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 			String firstIdStr = commit.getId().name() + ":" + ".gitmodules";
 			commit = new RepoCommand(dest)
 					.setInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(
-							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)))
+							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)))
 					.setRemoteReader(repos).setURI("platform/")
 					.setTargetURI("platform/superproject")
 					.setRecordRemoteBranch(true).setRecordSubmoduleLabels(true)
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ public class RepoCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 			RevCommit commit = cmd
 					.setInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(
-							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)))
+							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)))
 					.setRemoteReader(repos).setURI("platform/")
 					.setTargetURI("platform/superproject")
 					.setRecordRemoteBranch(true).setRecordSubmoduleLabels(true)
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ public class RepoCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		try (Repository dest = cloneRepository(db, true)) {
 			RevCommit commit = new RepoCommand(dest)
 					.setInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(
-							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)))
+							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)))
 					.setRemoteReader(new IndexedRepos()).setURI("platform/")
 					.setTargetURI("platform/superproject")
 					.setRecordRemoteBranch(true).setIgnoreRemoteFailures(true)
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ public class RepoCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 			RevCommit commit = cmd
 					.setInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(
-							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)))
+							xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)))
 					.setRemoteReader(repos).setURI("").setTargetURI("gerrit")
 					.setRecordRemoteBranch(true).setRecordSubmoduleLabels(true)
 					.call();
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ public class RepoCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 					RevCommit commit = cmd
 							.setInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(
-									xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)))
+									xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)))
 							.setRemoteReader(repos).setURI(baseUrl)
 							.setTargetURI("gerrit").setRecordRemoteBranch(true)
 							.setRecordSubmoduleLabels(true).call();
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ public class RepoCommandTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 					RevCommit commit = cmd
 							.setInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(
-									xmlContent.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)))
+									xmlContent.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)))
 							.setRemoteReader(repos).setURI(baseUrl)
 							.setTargetURI(abs + "/superproject")
 							.setRecordRemoteBranch(true)
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/CGitIgnoreTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/CGitIgnoreTest.java
index 0c6ed0c19e..b4c20a7e4c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/CGitIgnoreTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/CGitIgnoreTest.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.ignore;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
@@ -56,7 +57,6 @@ import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.eclipse.jgit.junit.RepositoryTestCase;
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.StoredConfig;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.FileTreeIterator;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.TreeWalk;
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ public class CGitIgnoreTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 				"exit " + result.getRc() + '\n' + errorOut);
 		try (BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
 				new BufferedInputStream(result.getStdout().openInputStream()),
-				Constants.CHARSET))) {
+				UTF_8))) {
 			return r.lines().toArray(String[]::new);
 		}
 	}
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ public class CGitIgnoreTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 				"exit " + result.getRc() + '\n' + errorOut);
 		try (BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
 				new BufferedInputStream(result.getStdout().openInputStream()),
-				Constants.CHARSET))) {
+				UTF_8))) {
 			return r.lines().toArray(String[]::new);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/IgnoreNodeTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/IgnoreNodeTest.java
index 78d9a82c24..cbc0761463 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/IgnoreNodeTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/IgnoreNodeTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.ignore;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
@@ -767,6 +767,6 @@ public class IgnoreNodeTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		for (String line : rules) {
 			data.append(line + "\n");
 		}
-		return new ByteArrayInputStream(data.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		return new ByteArrayInputStream(data.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/indexdiff/IndexDiffWithSymlinkTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/indexdiff/IndexDiffWithSymlinkTest.java
index 2a99da0c1e..7e513d2c39 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/indexdiff/IndexDiffWithSymlinkTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/indexdiff/IndexDiffWithSymlinkTest.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.indexdiff;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ public class IndexDiffWithSymlinkTest extends LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase {
 		File restoreScript = new File(testDir, name + ".sh");
 		try (OutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(
 				new FileOutputStream(restoreScript));
-				Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(out, CHARSET)) {
+				Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(out, UTF_8)) {
 			writer.write("echo `which git` 1>&2\n");
 			writer.write("echo `git --version` 1>&2\n");
 			writer.write("git init " + name + " && \\\n");
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ public class IndexDiffWithSymlinkTest extends LocalDiskRepositoryTestCase {
 
 	private String readStream(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
 		try (BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(stream, CHARSET))) {
+				new InputStreamReader(stream, UTF_8))) {
 			StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
 			String line;
 			while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefUpdateTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefUpdateTest.java
index e1adeedc54..3a43564180 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefUpdateTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefUpdateTest.java
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file;
 
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.LOCK_SUFFIX;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ public class RefUpdateTest extends SampleDataRepositoryTestCase {
 
 		ObjectId blobId;
 		try (ObjectInserter ins = bareRepo.newObjectInserter()) {
-			blobId = ins.insert(Constants.OBJ_BLOB, "contents".getBytes(CHARSET));
+			blobId = ins.insert(Constants.OBJ_BLOB, "contents".getBytes(UTF_8));
 			ins.flush();
 		}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/T0003_BasicTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/T0003_BasicTest.java
index e113db12ac..02073226d0 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/T0003_BasicTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/T0003_BasicTest.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file;
 
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1;
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ public class T0003_BasicTest extends SampleDataRepositoryTestCase {
 				+ "  email = A U Thor <thor@example.com> # Just an example...\n"
 				+ " name = \"A  Thor \\\\ \\\"\\t \"\n"
 				+ "    defaultCheckInComment = a many line\\ncomment\\n to test\n";
-		assertEquals(expectedStr, new String(IO.readFully(cfg), Constants.CHARSET));
+		assertEquals(expectedStr, new String(IO.readFully(cfg), UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	@Test
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ public class T0003_BasicTest extends SampleDataRepositoryTestCase {
 				4294967295000L, 60));
 		commit.setCommitter(new PersonIdent("Joe Hacker", "joe2@example.com",
 				4294967295000L, 60));
-		commit.setEncoding(CHARSET);
+		commit.setEncoding(UTF_8);
 		commit.setMessage("\u00dcbergeeks");
 		ObjectId cid = insertCommit(commit);
 		assertEquals("4680908112778718f37e686cbebcc912730b3154", cid.name());
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ public class T0003_BasicTest extends SampleDataRepositoryTestCase {
 		final ObjectId treeId;
 		try (ObjectInserter oi = db.newObjectInserter()) {
 			final ObjectId blobId = oi.insert(Constants.OBJ_BLOB,
-					"and this is the data in me\n".getBytes(Constants.CHARSET
+					"and this is the data in me\n".getBytes(UTF_8
 							.name()));
 			TreeFormatter fmt = new TreeFormatter();
 			fmt.append("i-am-a-file", FileMode.REGULAR_FILE, blobId);
@@ -666,9 +666,9 @@ public class T0003_BasicTest extends SampleDataRepositoryTestCase {
 		ObjectId id2;
 		try (ObjectInserter ins = db.newObjectInserter()) {
 			id1 = ins.insert(
-					Constants.OBJ_BLOB, "contents1".getBytes(Constants.CHARSET));
+					Constants.OBJ_BLOB, "contents1".getBytes(UTF_8));
 			id2 = ins.insert(
-					Constants.OBJ_BLOB, "contents2".getBytes(Constants.CHARSET));
+					Constants.OBJ_BLOB, "contents2".getBytes(UTF_8));
 			ins.flush();
 		}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/WindowCacheGetTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/WindowCacheGetTest.java
index 82ad28ed21..01426eeb8c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/WindowCacheGetTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/WindowCacheGetTest.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ public class WindowCacheGetTest extends SampleDataRepositoryTestCase {
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
 				new FileInputStream(JGitTestUtil
 						.getTestResourceFile("all_packed_objects.txt")),
-				Constants.CHARSET))) {
+				UTF_8))) {
 			String line;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
 				final String[] parts = line.split(" {1,}");
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/TestRepositoryTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/TestRepositoryTest.java
index 965899e7a0..b7027f3272 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/TestRepositoryTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/TestRepositoryTest.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.junit;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotEquals;
@@ -418,6 +418,6 @@ public class TestRepositoryTest {
 		RevObject obj = tr.get(rw.parseTree(treeish), path);
 		assertSame(RevBlob.class, obj.getClass());
 		ObjectLoader loader = rw.getObjectReader().open(obj);
-		return new String(loader.getCachedBytes(), CHARSET);
+		return new String(loader.getCachedBytes(), UTF_8);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ObjectCheckerTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ObjectCheckerTest.java
index b8e8a12d53..7ea504374c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ObjectCheckerTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ObjectCheckerTest.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
 import static java.lang.Integer.valueOf;
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.junit.JGitTestUtil.concat;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.OBJECT_ID_LENGTH;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.OBJ_BAD;
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ public class ObjectCheckerTest {
 		StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
 		entry(b, "100644 A");
 		entry(b, "100644 a");
-		byte[] data = b.toString().getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] data = b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8);
 		checker.setSafeForWindows(true);
 		assertCorrupt("duplicate entry names", OBJ_TREE, data);
 		assertSkipListAccepts(OBJ_TREE, data);
@@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ public class ObjectCheckerTest {
 		StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
 		entry(b, "100644 A");
 		entry(b, "100644 a");
-		byte[] data = b.toString().getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] data = b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8);
 		checker.setSafeForMacOS(true);
 		assertCorrupt("duplicate entry names", OBJ_TREE, data);
 		assertSkipListAccepts(OBJ_TREE, data);
@@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ public class ObjectCheckerTest {
 		StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
 		entry(b, "100644 \u0065\u0301");
 		entry(b, "100644 \u00e9");
-		byte[] data = b.toString().getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] data = b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8);
 		checker.setSafeForMacOS(true);
 		assertCorrupt("duplicate entry names", OBJ_TREE, data);
 		assertSkipListAccepts(OBJ_TREE, data);
@@ -1496,7 +1496,7 @@ public class ObjectCheckerTest {
 		StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
 		entry(b, "100644 A");
 		checker.setSafeForMacOS(true);
-		checker.checkTree(b.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		checker.checkTree(b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	@Test
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/CrissCrossMergeTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/CrissCrossMergeTest.java
index 974750df46..a67c750dba 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/CrissCrossMergeTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/CrissCrossMergeTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.merge;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ public class CrissCrossMergeTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
 		ObjectReader or = r.newObjectReader();
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(or.open(blobId).openStream(), CHARSET))) {
+				new InputStreamReader(or.open(blobId).openStream(), UTF_8))) {
 			String line;
 			boolean first = true;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/MergerTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/MergerTest.java
index da4513d1f7..8f12dd7b27 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/MergerTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/MergerTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.merge;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.OBJ_BLOB;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ public class MergerTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		}
 		binary[50] = '\0';
 
-		writeTrashFile("file", new String(binary, CHARSET));
+		writeTrashFile("file", new String(binary, UTF_8));
 		git.add().addFilepattern("file").call();
 		RevCommit first = git.commit().setMessage("added file").call();
 
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ public class MergerTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		int idx = LINELEN * 1200 + 1;
 		byte save = binary[idx];
 		binary[idx] = '@';
-		writeTrashFile("file", new String(binary, CHARSET));
+		writeTrashFile("file", new String(binary, UTF_8));
 
 		binary[idx] = save;
 		git.add().addFilepattern("file").call();
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ public class MergerTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 		git.checkout().setCreateBranch(true).setStartPoint(first).setName("side").call();
 		binary[LINELEN * 1500 + 1] = '!';
-		writeTrashFile("file", new String(binary, CHARSET));
+		writeTrashFile("file", new String(binary, UTF_8));
 		git.add().addFilepattern("file").call();
 		RevCommit sideCommit = git.commit().setAll(true)
 			.setMessage("modified file l 1500").call();
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ public class MergerTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 			merger.getMergeResults().get("file");
 			try (ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
 				fmt.formatMerge(out, merger.getMergeResults().get("file"),
-						"BASE", "OURS", "THEIRS", CHARSET.name());
+						"BASE", "OURS", "THEIRS", UTF_8.name());
 				String expected = "<<<<<<< OURS\n"
 						+ "1master\n"
 						+ "=======\n"
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ public class MergerTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 						+ ">>>>>>> THEIRS\n"
 						+ "2\n"
 						+ "3";
-				assertEquals(expected, new String(out.toByteArray(), CHARSET));
+				assertEquals(expected, new String(out.toByteArray(), UTF_8));
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -1367,6 +1367,7 @@ public class MergerTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		if (obj == null) {
 			return null;
 		}
-		return new String(rw.getObjectReader().open(obj, OBJ_BLOB).getBytes(), CHARSET);
+		return new String(rw.getObjectReader().open(obj, OBJ_BLOB).getBytes(),
+				UTF_8);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/GetTextTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/GetTextTest.java
index 7b5868a393..e383f36bca 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/GetTextTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/GetTextTest.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.patch;
 
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1;
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public class GetTextTest {
 	@Test
 	public void testGetText_Convert() throws IOException {
 		final Charset csOld = ISO_8859_1;
-		final Charset csNew = CHARSET;
+		final Charset csNew = UTF_8;
 		final Patch p = parseTestPatchFile();
 		assertTrue(p.getErrors().isEmpty());
 		assertEquals(1, p.getFiles().size());
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ public class GetTextTest {
 	@Test
 	public void testGetText_DiffCc() throws IOException {
 		final Charset csOld = ISO_8859_1;
-		final Charset csNew = CHARSET;
+		final Charset csNew = UTF_8;
 		final Patch p = parseTestPatchFile();
 		assertTrue(p.getErrors().isEmpty());
 		assertEquals(1, p.getFiles().size());
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevCommitParseTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevCommitParseTest.java
index cfefac3aa1..d55fb4467b 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevCommitParseTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevCommitParseTest.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk;
 
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1;
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		assertNull(c.getTree());
 		assertNull(c.parents);
 
-		c.parseCanonical(rw, body.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		c.parseCanonical(rw, body.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 		assertNotNull(c.getTree());
 		assertEquals(treeId, c.getTree().getId());
 		assertSame(rw.lookupTree(treeId), c.getTree());
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 		final RevCommit c;
 		c = new RevCommit(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
-		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 		return c;
 	}
 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 		final RevCommit c;
 		c = new RevCommit(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
-		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		assertEquals("", c.getFullMessage());
 		assertEquals("", c.getShortMessage());
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 		final RevCommit c;
 		c = new RevCommit(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
-		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		assertEquals(new PersonIdent("", "a_u_thor@example.com", 1218123387000l, 7), c.getAuthorIdent());
 		assertEquals(new PersonIdent("", "", 1218123390000l, -5), c.getCommitterIdent());
@@ -185,18 +185,18 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	@Test
 	public void testParse_implicit_UTF8_encoded() throws Exception {
 		final ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("author F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("committer C O. Miter <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("author F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("committer C O. Miter <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		final RevCommit c;
 		c = new RevCommit(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67")); // bogus id
 		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
 
-		assertSame(Constants.CHARSET, c.getEncoding());
+		assertSame(UTF_8, c.getEncoding());
 		assertEquals("F\u00f6r fattare", c.getAuthorIdent().getName());
 		assertEquals("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord", c.getShortMessage());
 		assertEquals("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n\n\u304d\u308c\u3044\n", c.getFullMessage());
@@ -205,18 +205,18 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	@Test
 	public void testParse_implicit_mixed_encoded() throws Exception {
 		final ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		b.write("author F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(ISO_8859_1));
-		b.write("committer C O. Miter <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("committer C O. Miter <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		final RevCommit c;
 		c = new RevCommit(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67")); // bogus id
 		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
 
-		assertSame(Constants.CHARSET, c.getEncoding());
+		assertSame(UTF_8, c.getEncoding());
 		assertEquals("F\u00f6r fattare", c.getAuthorIdent().getName());
 		assertEquals("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord", c.getShortMessage());
 		assertEquals("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n\n\u304d\u308c\u3044\n", c.getFullMessage());
@@ -260,14 +260,14 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	@Test
 	public void testParse_explicit_bad_encoded() throws Exception {
 		final ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		b.write("author F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(ISO_8859_1));
-		b.write("committer C O. Miter <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("encoding EUC-JP\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("Hi\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("committer C O. Miter <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("encoding EUC-JP\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("Hi\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		final RevCommit c;
 		c = new RevCommit(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67")); // bogus id
 		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
@@ -291,14 +291,14 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	@Test
 	public void testParse_explicit_bad_encoded2() throws Exception {
 		final ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("author F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("committer C O. Miter <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("encoding ISO-8859-1\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("Hi\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("author F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("committer C O. Miter <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("encoding ISO-8859-1\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("Hi\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		final RevCommit c;
 		c = new RevCommit(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67")); // bogus id
 		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
@@ -313,13 +313,13 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	public void testParse_incorrectUtf8Name() throws Exception {
 		ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n"
-				.getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("author au <a@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+				.getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("author au <a@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		b.write("committer co <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n"
-				.getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("encoding 'utf8'\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+				.getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("encoding 'utf8'\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		RevCommit c = new RevCommit(
 				id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
@@ -338,12 +338,12 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	@Test
 	public void testParse_illegalEncoding() throws Exception {
 		ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("author au <a@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("committer co <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("encoding utf-8logoutputencoding=gbk\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("message\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("author au <a@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("committer co <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("encoding utf-8logoutputencoding=gbk\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("message\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		RevCommit c = new RevCommit(
 				id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
@@ -365,12 +365,12 @@ public class RevCommitParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	@Test
 	public void testParse_unsupportedEncoding() throws Exception {
 		ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("author au <a@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("committer co <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("encoding it_IT.UTF8\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("message\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("tree 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("author au <a@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("committer co <c@example.com> 1218123390 -0500\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("encoding it_IT.UTF8\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("message\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		RevCommit c = new RevCommit(
 				id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevTagParseTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevTagParseTest.java
index e11cef7c92..1b45473066 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevTagParseTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevTagParseTest.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk;
 
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1;
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		assertNull(c.getObject());
 		assertNull(c.getTagName());
 
-		c.parseCanonical(rw, b.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		c.parseCanonical(rw, b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 		assertNotNull(c.getObject());
 		assertEquals(id, c.getObject().getId());
 		assertSame(rw.lookupAny(id, typeCode), c.getObject());
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		assertNull(c.getObject());
 		assertNull(c.getTagName());
 
-		c.parseCanonical(rw, body.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		c.parseCanonical(rw, body.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 		assertNotNull(c.getObject());
 		assertEquals(treeId, c.getObject().getId());
 		assertSame(rw.lookupTree(treeId), c.getObject());
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		assertNull(c.getObject());
 		assertNull(c.getTagName());
 
-		c.parseCanonical(rw, body.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		c.parseCanonical(rw, body.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 		assertNotNull(c.getObject());
 		assertEquals(treeId, c.getObject().getId());
 		assertSame(rw.lookupTree(treeId), c.getObject());
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 		final RevTag c;
 		c = new RevTag(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
-		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toString().getBytes(CHARSET));
+		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8));
 		return c;
 	}
 
@@ -221,17 +221,17 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	public void testParse_implicit_UTF8_encoded() throws Exception {
 		final ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 		b.write("object 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n"
-				.getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("tag v1.2.3.4.5\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+				.getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("tag v1.2.3.4.5\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		b
 				.write("tagger F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n"
-						.getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+						.getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		final RevTag c;
 		c = new RevTag(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
 		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
@@ -246,15 +246,15 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	public void testParse_implicit_mixed_encoded() throws Exception {
 		final ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 		b.write("object 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n"
-				.getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("tag v1.2.3.4.5\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+				.getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("tag v1.2.3.4.5\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		b.write("tagger F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n"
 				.getBytes(ISO_8859_1));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("Sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		final RevTag c;
 		c = new RevTag(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
 		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
@@ -307,17 +307,17 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	public void testParse_explicit_bad_encoded() throws Exception {
 		final ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 		b.write("object 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n"
-				.getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("tag v1.2.3.4.5\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+				.getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("tag v1.2.3.4.5\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		b
 				.write("tagger F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n"
 						.getBytes(ISO_8859_1));
-		b.write("encoding EUC-JP\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("Hi\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("encoding EUC-JP\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("Hi\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		final RevTag c;
 		c = new RevTag(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
 		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
@@ -342,17 +342,17 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	public void testParse_explicit_bad_encoded2() throws Exception {
 		final ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 		b.write("object 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n"
-				.getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("tag v1.2.3.4.5\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+				.getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("tag v1.2.3.4.5\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		b
 				.write("tagger F\u00f6r fattare <a_u_thor@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n"
-						.getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("encoding ISO-8859-1\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("Hi\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+						.getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("encoding ISO-8859-1\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\u304d\u308c\u3044\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("Hi\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 		final RevTag c;
 		c = new RevTag(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
 		c.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
@@ -365,13 +365,13 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	@Test
 	public void testParse_illegalEncoding() throws Exception {
 		ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		b.write("object 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("tag v1.0\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("tagger t <t@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("encoding utf-8logoutputencoding=gbk\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("message\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("object 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("tag v1.0\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("tagger t <t@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("encoding utf-8logoutputencoding=gbk\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("message\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		RevTag t = new RevTag(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
 		t.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
@@ -384,13 +384,13 @@ public class RevTagParseTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	@Test
 	public void testParse_unsupportedEncoding() throws Exception {
 		ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		b.write("object 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("tag v1.0\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("tagger t <t@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("encoding it_IT.UTF8\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
-		b.write("message\n".getBytes(CHARSET));
+		b.write("object 9788669ad918b6fcce64af8882fc9a81cb6aba67\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("type tree\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("tag v1.0\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("tagger t <t@example.com> 1218123387 +0700\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("encoding it_IT.UTF8\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
+		b.write("message\n".getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		RevTag t = new RevTag(id("9473095c4cb2f12aefe1db8a355fe3fafba42f67"));
 		t.parseCanonical(new RevWalk(db), b.toByteArray());
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileBasedConfigTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileBasedConfigTest.java
index 0dea5ce97b..7f0d60295c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileBasedConfigTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileBasedConfigTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.FileUtils.pathToString;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ public class FileBasedConfigTest {
 
 	@Test
 	public void testUTF8withoutBOM() throws IOException, ConfigInvalidException {
-		final File file = createFile(CONTENT1.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		final File file = createFile(CONTENT1.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		final FileBasedConfig config = new FileBasedConfig(file, FS.DETECTED);
 		config.load();
 		assertEquals(ALICE, config.getString(USER, null, NAME));
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ public class FileBasedConfigTest {
 		bos1.write(0xEF);
 		bos1.write(0xBB);
 		bos1.write(0xBF);
-		bos1.write(CONTENT1.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		bos1.write(CONTENT1.getBytes(UTF_8));
 
 		final File file = createFile(bos1.toByteArray());
 		final FileBasedConfig config = new FileBasedConfig(file, FS.DETECTED);
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ public class FileBasedConfigTest {
 		bos2.write(0xEF);
 		bos2.write(0xBB);
 		bos2.write(0xBF);
-		bos2.write(CONTENT2.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		bos2.write(CONTENT2.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		assertArrayEquals(bos2.toByteArray(), IO.readFully(file));
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleWriterTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleWriterTest.java
index d30ac840a6..7b31bfa3ad 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleWriterTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleWriterTest.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.OBJ_BLOB;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
@@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ public class BundleWriterTest extends SampleDataRepositoryTestCase {
 			Ref ref = repo.exactRef(refName);
 			assertNotNull(ref);
 			assertEquals(id, ref.getObjectId());
-			assertEquals(data, new String(repo.open(id, OBJ_BLOB).getBytes(), CHARSET));
+			assertEquals(data,
+					new String(repo.open(id, OBJ_BLOB).getBytes(), UTF_8));
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/NetRCTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/NetRCTest.java
index 4e5d56acb2..2a4e492e3d 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/NetRCTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/NetRCTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ public class NetRCTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 	private void config(String data) throws IOException {
 		try (OutputStreamWriter fw = new OutputStreamWriter(
-				new FileOutputStream(configFile), CHARSET)) {
+				new FileOutputStream(configFile), UTF_8)) {
 			fw.write(data);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/OpenSshConfigTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/OpenSshConfigTest.java
index abf80ecd4d..19fcbfd7a2 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/OpenSshConfigTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/OpenSshConfigTest.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ public class OpenSshConfigTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 		long lastMtime = configFile.lastModified();
 		do {
 			try (final OutputStreamWriter fw = new OutputStreamWriter(
-					new FileOutputStream(configFile), CHARSET)) {
+					new FileOutputStream(configFile), UTF_8)) {
 				fw.write(data);
 			}
 		} while (lastMtime == configFile.lastModified());
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/WalkEncryptionTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/WalkEncryptionTest.java
index 97f392e634..f2fb0224ef 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/WalkEncryptionTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/WalkEncryptionTest.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.transport.WalkEncryptionTest.Util.cryptoCipherListPBE;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.transport.WalkEncryptionTest.Util.cryptoCipherListTrans;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.transport.WalkEncryptionTest.Util.folderDelete;
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ public class WalkEncryptionTest {
 		 * @throws Exception
 		 */
 		static String textRead(File file) throws Exception {
-			return new String(Files.readAllBytes(file.toPath()), CHARSET);
+			return new String(Files.readAllBytes(file.toPath()), UTF_8);
 		}
 
 		/**
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ public class WalkEncryptionTest {
 		 * @throws Exception
 		 */
 		static void textWrite(File file, String text) throws Exception {
-			Files.write(file.toPath(), text.getBytes(CHARSET));
+			Files.write(file.toPath(), text.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		}
 
 		static void verifyFileContent(File fileOne, File fileTwo)
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ public class WalkEncryptionTest {
 				c.setConnectTimeout(500);
 				c.setReadTimeout(500);
 				try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
-						new InputStreamReader(c.getInputStream(), CHARSET))) {
+						new InputStreamReader(c.getInputStream(), UTF_8))) {
 					return reader.readLine();
 				}
 			} catch (UnknownHostException | SocketTimeoutException e) {
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ public class WalkEncryptionTest {
 			AmazonS3 s3 = new AmazonS3(props);
 			String file = JGIT_USER + "-" + UUID.randomUUID().toString();
 			String path = JGIT_REMOTE_DIR + "/" + file;
-			s3.put(bucket, path, file.getBytes(CHARSET));
+			s3.put(bucket, path, file.getBytes(UTF_8));
 			s3.delete(bucket, path);
 		}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/CanonicalTreeParserTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/CanonicalTreeParserTest.java
index 6195e640fb..41bd355a2f 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/CanonicalTreeParserTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/CanonicalTreeParserTest.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.FileMode.REGULAR_FILE;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.FileMode.SYMLINK;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ public class CanonicalTreeParserTest {
 	}
 
 	private String path() {
-		return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, ctp.path,
+		return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, ctp.path,
 				ctp.pathOffset, ctp.pathLen);
 	}
 
@@ -370,7 +371,7 @@ public class CanonicalTreeParserTest {
 		final String name = b.toString();
 		ctp.reset(entry(m644, name, hash_a));
 		assertFalse(ctp.eof());
-		assertEquals(name, RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, ctp.path,
+		assertEquals(name, RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, ctp.path,
 				ctp.pathOffset, ctp.pathLen));
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/FileTreeIteratorTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/FileTreeIteratorTest.java
index e031678339..33e32cd813 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/FileTreeIteratorTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/FileTreeIteratorTest.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
@@ -822,6 +823,6 @@ public class FileTreeIteratorTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	}
 
 	private static String nameOf(AbstractTreeIterator i) {
-		return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, i.path, 0, i.pathLen);
+		return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, i.path, 0, i.pathLen);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/RawSubStringPatternTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/RawSubStringPatternTest.java
index a748b52215..e8566d2438 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/RawSubStringPatternTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/RawSubStringPatternTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public class RawSubStringPatternTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 	}
 
 	private static RawCharSequence raw(String text) {
-		byte[] bytes = text.getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] bytes = text.getBytes(UTF_8);
 		return new RawCharSequence(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/io/AutoLFInputStreamTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/io/AutoLFInputStreamTest.java
index 5058165802..37ca951f67 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/io/AutoLFInputStreamTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/io/AutoLFInputStreamTest.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util.io;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
@@ -132,6 +132,6 @@ public class AutoLFInputStreamTest {
 	}
 
 	private static byte[] asBytes(String in) {
-		return in.getBytes(CHARSET);
+		return in.getBytes(UTF_8);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/sha1/SHA1Test.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/sha1/SHA1Test.java
index 3c612e1bdd..e6045a91bd 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/sha1/SHA1Test.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/util/sha1/SHA1Test.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util.sha1;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
@@ -95,15 +95,15 @@ public class SHA1Test {
 				.fromString("a9993e364706816aba3e25717850c26c9cd0d89d");
 
 		MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
-		m.update(TEST1.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		m.update(TEST1.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		ObjectId m1 = ObjectId.fromRaw(m.digest());
 
 		SHA1 s = SHA1.newInstance();
-		s.update(TEST1.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		s.update(TEST1.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		ObjectId s1 = ObjectId.fromRaw(s.digest());
 
 		s.reset();
-		s.update(TEST1.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		s.update(TEST1.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		ObjectId s2 = s.toObjectId();
 
 		assertEquals(m1, s1);
@@ -117,15 +117,15 @@ public class SHA1Test {
 				.fromString("84983e441c3bd26ebaae4aa1f95129e5e54670f1");
 
 		MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
-		m.update(TEST2.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		m.update(TEST2.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		ObjectId m1 = ObjectId.fromRaw(m.digest());
 
 		SHA1 s = SHA1.newInstance();
-		s.update(TEST2.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		s.update(TEST2.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		ObjectId s1 = ObjectId.fromRaw(s.digest());
 
 		s.reset();
-		s.update(TEST2.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		s.update(TEST2.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		ObjectId s2 = s.toObjectId();
 
 		assertEquals(m1, s1);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/attributes/AttributesNode.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/attributes/AttributesNode.java
index 62bf9f2737..bcd72311dd 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/attributes/AttributesNode.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/attributes/AttributesNode.java
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.attributes;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -50,8 +52,6 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
-
 /**
  * Represents a bundle of attributes inherited from a base directory.
  *
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ public class AttributesNode {
 	}
 
 	private static BufferedReader asReader(InputStream in) {
-		return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, Constants.CHARSET));
+		return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheEntry.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheEntry.java
index fee9f51000..6b1d4f4d8a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheEntry.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheEntry.java
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.dircache;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -772,7 +774,7 @@ public class DirCacheEntry {
 	}
 
 	static String toString(byte[] path) {
-		return Constants.CHARSET.decode(ByteBuffer.wrap(path)).toString();
+		return UTF_8.decode(ByteBuffer.wrap(path)).toString();
 	}
 
 	static int getMaximumInfoLength(boolean extended) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheTree.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheTree.java
index b605f3ca8e..11a3474a35 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheTree.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheTree.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.dircache;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.FileMode.TREE;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.TreeFormatter.entrySize;
 
@@ -276,7 +277,7 @@ public class DirCacheTree {
 	 */
 	public String getNameString() {
 		final ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.wrap(encodedName);
-		return Constants.CHARSET.decode(bb).toString();
+		return UTF_8.decode(bb).toString();
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/hooks/GitHook.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/hooks/GitHook.java
index 8a61d1b0b1..ad43e2ca83 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/hooks/GitHook.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/hooks/GitHook.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.hooks;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ abstract class GitHook<T> implements Callable<T> {
 		PrintStream hookErrRedirect = null;
 		try {
 			hookErrRedirect = new PrintStream(errorByteArray, false,
-					CHARSET.name());
+					UTF_8.name());
 		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 			// UTF-8 is guaranteed to be available
 		}
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ abstract class GitHook<T> implements Callable<T> {
 				hookErrRedirect, getStdinArgs());
 		if (result.isExecutedWithError()) {
 			throw new AbortedByHookException(
-					new String(errorByteArray.toByteArray(), CHARSET),
+					new String(errorByteArray.toByteArray(), UTF_8),
 					getHookName(), result.getExitCode());
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/IgnoreNode.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/IgnoreNode.java
index d570fde36f..864f8bfc02 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/IgnoreNode.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/IgnoreNode.java
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.ignore;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -50,8 +52,6 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
-
 /**
  * Represents a bundle of ignore rules inherited from a base directory.
  *
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ public class IgnoreNode {
 	}
 
 	private static BufferedReader asReader(InputStream in) {
-		return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, Constants.CHARSET));
+		return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/dfs/DfsStreamKey.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/dfs/DfsStreamKey.java
index c11f696708..8793d83126 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/dfs/DfsStreamKey.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/dfs/DfsStreamKey.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.dfs;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public abstract class DfsStreamKey {
 	 */
 	public static DfsStreamKey of(DfsRepositoryDescription repo, String name,
 			@Nullable PackExt ext) {
-		return new ByteArrayDfsStreamKey(repo, name.getBytes(CHARSET), ext);
+		return new ByteArrayDfsStreamKey(repo, name.getBytes(UTF_8), ext);
 	}
 
 	final int hash;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/GcLog.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/GcLog.java
index 0e587ce827..82458c1acf 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/GcLog.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/GcLog.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -171,6 +171,6 @@ class GcLog {
 		if (content.length() > 0) {
 			nonEmpty = true;
 		}
-		lock.write(content.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		lock.write(content.getBytes(UTF_8));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/LazyObjectIdSetFile.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/LazyObjectIdSetFile.java
index c82d52e79c..3d0e9c7189 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/LazyObjectIdSetFile.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/LazyObjectIdSetFile.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ public class LazyObjectIdSetFile implements ObjectIdSet {
 	private ObjectIdOwnerMap<Entry> load() {
 		ObjectIdOwnerMap<Entry> r = new ObjectIdOwnerMap<>();
 		try (FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(src);
-				Reader rin = new InputStreamReader(fin, CHARSET);
+				Reader rin = new InputStreamReader(fin, UTF_8);
 				BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(rin)) {
 			MutableObjectId id = new MutableObjectId();
 			for (String line; (line = br.readLine()) != null;) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefDirectory.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefDirectory.java
index 6a18df86e2..de7e4b3f25 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefDirectory.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefDirectory.java
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.HEAD;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.LOGS;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.OBJECT_ID_STRING_LENGTH;
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ public class RefDirectory extends RefDatabase {
 			try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
 					new DigestInputStream(new FileInputStream(packedRefsFile),
 							digest),
-					CHARSET))) {
+					UTF_8))) {
 				try {
 					return new PackedRefList(parsePackedRefs(br), snapshot,
 							ObjectId.fromRaw(digest.digest()));
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/BlockReader.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/BlockReader.java
index 942d72fe23..ce2ba4a2e1 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/BlockReader.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/BlockReader.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.BlockWriter.compare;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.FILE_BLOCK_TYPE;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.FILE_HEADER_LEN;
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class BlockReader {
 		if (blockType == LOG_BLOCK_TYPE) {
 			len -= 9;
 		}
-		return RawParseUtils.decode(CHARSET, nameBuf, 0, len);
+		return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, nameBuf, 0, len);
 	}
 
 	boolean match(byte[] match, boolean matchIsPrefix) {
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ class BlockReader {
 	}
 
 	Ref readRef() throws IOException {
-		String name = RawParseUtils.decode(CHARSET, nameBuf, 0, nameLen);
+		String name = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, nameBuf, 0, nameLen);
 		switch (valueType & VALUE_TYPE_MASK) {
 		case VALUE_NONE: // delete
 			return newRef(name);
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ class BlockReader {
 	private String readValueString() {
 		int len = readVarint32();
 		int end = ptr + len;
-		String s = RawParseUtils.decode(CHARSET, buf, ptr, end);
+		String s = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, buf, ptr, end);
 		ptr = end;
 		return s;
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/BlockWriter.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/BlockWriter.java
index 3d8fbf4996..b3173e838c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/BlockWriter.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/BlockWriter.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.FILE_HEADER_LEN;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.INDEX_BLOCK_TYPE;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.LOG_BLOCK_TYPE;
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ class BlockWriter {
 		}
 
 		private static byte[] nameUtf8(Ref ref) {
-			return ref.getName().getBytes(CHARSET);
+			return ref.getName().getBytes(UTF_8);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -559,13 +559,13 @@ class BlockWriter {
 			this.newId = newId;
 			this.timeSecs = who.getWhen().getTime() / 1000L;
 			this.tz = (short) who.getTimeZoneOffset();
-			this.name = who.getName().getBytes(CHARSET);
-			this.email = who.getEmailAddress().getBytes(CHARSET);
-			this.msg = message.getBytes(CHARSET);
+			this.name = who.getName().getBytes(UTF_8);
+			this.email = who.getEmailAddress().getBytes(UTF_8);
+			this.msg = message.getBytes(UTF_8);
 		}
 
 		static byte[] key(String ref, long index) {
-			byte[] name = ref.getBytes(CHARSET);
+			byte[] name = ref.getBytes(UTF_8);
 			byte[] key = Arrays.copyOf(name, name.length + 1 + 8);
 			NB.encodeInt64(key, key.length - 8, reverseUpdateIndex(index));
 			return key;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/ReftableOutputStream.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/ReftableOutputStream.java
index 44bbb16219..1fc43c9fac 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/ReftableOutputStream.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/ReftableOutputStream.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.FILE_HEADER_LEN;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.INDEX_BLOCK_TYPE;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.LOG_BLOCK_TYPE;
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ class ReftableOutputStream extends OutputStream {
 	}
 
 	void writeVarintString(String s) {
-		writeVarintString(s.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		writeVarintString(s.getBytes(UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	void writeVarintString(byte[] msg) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/ReftableReader.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/ReftableReader.java
index bd52256c2b..81b30e4cb9 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/ReftableReader.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable/ReftableReader.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.BlockReader.decodeBlockLen;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.FILE_BLOCK_TYPE;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.reftable.ReftableConstants.FILE_FOOTER_LEN;
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ public class ReftableReader extends Reftable {
 	public RefCursor seekRef(String refName) throws IOException {
 		initRefIndex();
 
-		byte[] key = refName.getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] key = refName.getBytes(UTF_8);
 		RefCursorImpl i = new RefCursorImpl(refEnd, key, false);
 		i.block = seek(REF_BLOCK_TYPE, key, refIndex, 0, refEnd);
 		return i;
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ public class ReftableReader extends Reftable {
 	public RefCursor seekRefsWithPrefix(String prefix) throws IOException {
 		initRefIndex();
 
-		byte[] key = prefix.getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] key = prefix.getBytes(UTF_8);
 		RefCursorImpl i = new RefCursorImpl(refEnd, key, true);
 		i.block = seek(REF_BLOCK_TYPE, key, refIndex, 0, refEnd);
 		return i;
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ public class ReftableReader extends Reftable {
 		initLogIndex();
 		if (logPosition > 0) {
 			byte[] key = LogEntry.key(refName, updateIndex);
-			byte[] match = refName.getBytes(CHARSET);
+			byte[] match = refName.getBytes(UTF_8);
 			LogCursorImpl i = new LogCursorImpl(logEnd, match);
 			i.block = seek(LOG_BLOCK_TYPE, key, logIndex, logPosition, logEnd);
 			return i;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/BlobBasedConfig.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/BlobBasedConfig.java
index e008be3a3c..59154b78bf 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/BlobBasedConfig.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/BlobBasedConfig.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public class BlobBasedConfig extends Config {
 		super(base);
 		final String decoded;
 		if (isUtf8(blob)) {
-			decoded = RawParseUtils.decode(CHARSET, blob, 3, blob.length);
+			decoded = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, blob, 3, blob.length);
 		} else {
 			decoded = RawParseUtils.decode(blob);
 		}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/CommitBuilder.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/CommitBuilder.java
index 59a13f6550..c30833d0a6 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/CommitBuilder.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/CommitBuilder.java
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
@@ -93,7 +95,7 @@ public class CommitBuilder {
 	 */
 	public CommitBuilder() {
 		parentIds = EMPTY_OBJECTID_LIST;
-		encoding = Constants.CHARSET;
+		encoding = UTF_8;
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -314,7 +316,7 @@ public class CommitBuilder {
 			w.flush();
 			os.write('\n');
 
-			if (getEncoding() != Constants.CHARSET) {
+			if (getEncoding() != UTF_8) {
 				os.write(hencoding);
 				os.write(' ');
 				os.write(Constants.encodeASCII(getEncoding().name()));
@@ -375,7 +377,7 @@ public class CommitBuilder {
 		r.append(committer != null ? committer.toString() : "NOT_SET");
 		r.append("\n");
 
-		if (encoding != null && encoding != Constants.CHARSET) {
+		if (encoding != null && encoding != UTF_8) {
 			r.append("encoding ");
 			r.append(encoding.name());
 			r.append("\n");
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Config.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Config.java
index 0e01cca99b..b666f21d0b 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Config.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Config.java
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.text.MessageFormat;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ public class Config {
 
 		String decoded;
 		if (isUtf8(bytes)) {
-			decoded = RawParseUtils.decode(CHARSET, bytes, 3, bytes.length);
+			decoded = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, bytes, 3, bytes.length);
 		} else {
 			decoded = RawParseUtils.decode(bytes);
 		}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Constants.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Constants.java
index 9a4a3a2a01..f02e95a3d2 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Constants.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Constants.java
@@ -227,7 +227,13 @@ public final class Constants {
 	 */
 	public static final byte[] PACK_SIGNATURE = { 'P', 'A', 'C', 'K' };
 
-	/** Native character encoding for commit messages, file names... */
+	/**
+	 * Native character encoding for commit messages, file names...
+	 *
+	 * @deprecated Use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#UTF_8} directly
+	 *             instead.
+	 **/
+	@Deprecated
 	public static final Charset CHARSET;
 
 	/** Native character encoding for commit messages, file names... */
@@ -638,7 +644,7 @@ public final class Constants {
 	 * @see #CHARACTER_ENCODING
 	 */
 	public static byte[] encode(String str) {
-		final ByteBuffer bb = Constants.CHARSET.encode(str);
+		final ByteBuffer bb = UTF_8.encode(str);
 		final int len = bb.limit();
 		if (bb.hasArray() && bb.arrayOffset() == 0) {
 			final byte[] arr = bb.array();
@@ -655,7 +661,7 @@ public final class Constants {
 		if (OBJECT_ID_LENGTH != newMessageDigest().getDigestLength())
 			throw new LinkageError(JGitText.get().incorrectOBJECT_ID_LENGTH);
 		CHARSET = UTF_8;
-		CHARACTER_ENCODING = CHARSET.name();
+		CHARACTER_ENCODING = UTF_8.name();
 	}
 
 	/** name of the file containing the commit msg for a merge commit */
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RebaseTodoFile.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RebaseTodoFile.java
index 38716055b5..06b4b227c8 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RebaseTodoFile.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RebaseTodoFile.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ public class RebaseTodoFile {
 			switch (tokenCount) {
 			case 0:
 				String actionToken = new String(buf, tokenBegin,
-						nextSpace - tokenBegin - 1, CHARSET);
+						nextSpace - tokenBegin - 1, UTF_8);
 				tokenBegin = nextSpace;
 				action = RebaseTodoLine.Action.parse(actionToken);
 				if (action == null)
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ public class RebaseTodoFile {
 			case 1:
 				nextSpace = RawParseUtils.next(buf, tokenBegin, ' ');
 				String commitToken = new String(buf, tokenBegin,
-						nextSpace - tokenBegin - 1, CHARSET);
+						nextSpace - tokenBegin - 1, UTF_8);
 				tokenBegin = nextSpace;
 				commit = AbbreviatedObjectId.fromString(commitToken);
 				break;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/TagBuilder.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/TagBuilder.java
index bd03165805..7669e95acc 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/TagBuilder.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/TagBuilder.java
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
@@ -181,7 +183,7 @@ public class TagBuilder {
 	public byte[] build() {
 		ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 		try (OutputStreamWriter w = new OutputStreamWriter(os,
-				Constants.CHARSET)) {
+				UTF_8)) {
 			w.write("object "); //$NON-NLS-1$
 			getObjectId().copyTo(w);
 			w.write('\n');
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/TextProgressMonitor.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/TextProgressMonitor.java
index 2f759e53ca..936ce3dcc8 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/TextProgressMonitor.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/TextProgressMonitor.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ public class TextProgressMonitor extends BatchingProgressMonitor {
 	 * Initialize a new progress monitor.
 	 */
 	public TextProgressMonitor() {
-		this(new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.err, CHARSET)));
+		this(new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.err, UTF_8)));
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/FileHeader.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/FileHeader.java
index d0a5216e1e..1f4beb017f 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/FileHeader.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/FileHeader.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.patch;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.encodeASCII;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils.decode;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils.decodeNoFallback;
@@ -63,7 +64,6 @@ import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.DiffEntry;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.EditList;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.internal.JGitText;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.AbbreviatedObjectId;
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.FileMode;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.QuotedString;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils;
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ public class FileHeader extends DiffEntry {
 	 * Convert the patch script for this file into a string.
 	 * <p>
 	 * The default character encoding
-	 * ({@link org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants#CHARSET}) is assumed for both the
+	 * ({@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#UTF_8}) is assumed for both the
 	 * old and new files.
 	 *
 	 * @return the patch script, as a Unicode string.
@@ -240,8 +240,9 @@ public class FileHeader extends DiffEntry {
 
 		if (trySimpleConversion(charsetGuess)) {
 			Charset cs = charsetGuess != null ? charsetGuess[0] : null;
-			if (cs == null)
-				cs = Constants.CHARSET;
+			if (cs == null) {
+				cs = UTF_8;
+			}
 			try {
 				return decodeNoFallback(cs, buf, startOffset, endOffset);
 			} catch (CharacterCodingException cee) {
@@ -290,8 +291,9 @@ public class FileHeader extends DiffEntry {
 			final String[] r = new String[tmp.length];
 			for (int i = 0; i < tmp.length; i++) {
 				Charset cs = csGuess != null ? csGuess[i] : null;
-				if (cs == null)
-					cs = Constants.CHARSET;
+				if (cs == null) {
+					cs = UTF_8;
+				}
 				r[i] = RawParseUtils.decode(cs, tmp[i].toByteArray());
 			}
 			return r;
@@ -429,7 +431,7 @@ public class FileHeader extends DiffEntry {
 					oldPath = QuotedString.GIT_PATH.dequote(buf, bol, sp - 1);
 					oldPath = p1(oldPath);
 				} else {
-					oldPath = decode(Constants.CHARSET, buf, aStart, sp - 1);
+					oldPath = decode(UTF_8, buf, aStart, sp - 1);
 				}
 				newPath = oldPath;
 				return eol;
@@ -572,7 +574,7 @@ public class FileHeader extends DiffEntry {
 				tab--;
 			if (ptr == tab)
 				tab = end;
-			r = decode(Constants.CHARSET, buf, ptr, tab - 1);
+			r = decode(UTF_8, buf, ptr, tab - 1);
 		}
 
 		if (r.equals(DEV_NULL))
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/FormatError.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/FormatError.java
index 1dd24d732e..10ea778343 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/FormatError.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/patch/FormatError.java
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.patch;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.util.Locale;
 
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ public class FormatError {
 	 */
 	public String getLineText() {
 		final int eol = RawParseUtils.nextLF(buf, offset);
-		return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, buf, offset, eol);
+		return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, buf, offset, eol);
 	}
 
 	/** {@inheritDoc} */
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevCommit.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevCommit.java
index 3de442afb6..5bd5dd6368 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevCommit.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevCommit.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ public class RevCommit extends RevObject {
 		try {
 			return getEncoding();
 		} catch (IllegalCharsetNameException | UnsupportedCharsetException e) {
-			return CHARSET;
+			return UTF_8;
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevTag.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevTag.java
index 0050bac0ae..32e7adfb0c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevTag.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevTag.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ public class RevTag extends RevObject {
 
 		int p = pos.value += 4; // "tag "
 		final int nameEnd = RawParseUtils.nextLF(rawTag, p) - 1;
-		tagName = RawParseUtils.decode(CHARSET, rawTag, p, nameEnd);
+		tagName = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, rawTag, p, nameEnd);
 
 		if (walk.isRetainBody())
 			buffer = rawTag;
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ public class RevTag extends RevObject {
 		try {
 			return RawParseUtils.parseEncoding(buffer);
 		} catch (IllegalCharsetNameException | UnsupportedCharsetException e) {
-			return CHARSET;
+			return UTF_8;
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileBasedConfig.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileBasedConfig.java
index 4b272ba7a4..93b3baa61f 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileBasedConfig.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileBasedConfig.java
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ public class FileBasedConfig extends StoredConfig {
 				} else {
 					final String decoded;
 					if (isUtf8(in)) {
-						decoded = RawParseUtils.decode(CHARSET,
+						decoded = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8,
 								in, 3, in.length);
 						utf8Bom = true;
 					} else {
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ public class FileBasedConfig extends StoredConfig {
 			bos.write(0xEF);
 			bos.write(0xBB);
 			bos.write(0xBF);
-			bos.write(text.getBytes(CHARSET));
+			bos.write(text.getBytes(UTF_8));
 			out = bos.toByteArray();
 		} else {
 			out = Constants.encode(text);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/AmazonS3.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/AmazonS3.java
index a0fc57ca1f..f6ec4b90eb 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/AmazonS3.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/AmazonS3.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ public class AmazonS3 {
 		try {
 			final Mac m = Mac.getInstance(HMAC);
 			m.init(privateKey);
-			sec = Base64.encodeBytes(m.doFinal(s.toString().getBytes(CHARSET)));
+			sec = Base64.encodeBytes(m.doFinal(s.toString().getBytes(UTF_8)));
 		} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
 			throw new IOException(MessageFormat.format(JGitText.get().noHMACsupport, HMAC, e.getMessage()));
 		} catch (InvalidKeyException e) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleFetchConnection.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleFetchConnection.java
index 449f529447..4b20f6c8b0 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleFetchConnection.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleFetchConnection.java
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -66,7 +68,6 @@ import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.PackProtocolException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.TransportException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.internal.JGitText;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file.PackLock;
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.NullProgressMonitor;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ObjectId;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ObjectIdRef;
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@ class BundleFetchConnection extends BaseFetchConnection {
 				IO.skipFully(bin, 1);
 				done = true;
 			}
-			line.append(RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, hdrbuf, 0, lf));
+			line.append(RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, hdrbuf, 0, lf));
 		}
 		return line.toString();
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleWriter.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleWriter.java
index f2a261bbe6..56aaede80d 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleWriter.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/BundleWriter.java
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
@@ -231,7 +233,7 @@ public class BundleWriter {
 				packWriter.setTagTargets(tagTargets);
 			packWriter.preparePack(monitor, inc, exc);
 
-			final Writer w = new OutputStreamWriter(os, Constants.CHARSET);
+			final Writer w = new OutputStreamWriter(os, UTF_8);
 			w.write(TransportBundle.V2_BUNDLE_SIGNATURE);
 			w.write('\n');
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/HMACSHA1NonceGenerator.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/HMACSHA1NonceGenerator.java
index 1415334c63..6c26b7026a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/HMACSHA1NonceGenerator.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/HMACSHA1NonceGenerator.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1;
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ public class HMACSHA1NonceGenerator implements NonceGenerator {
 		}
 
 		String input = path + ":" + String.valueOf(timestamp); //$NON-NLS-1$
-		byte[] rawHmac = mac.doFinal(input.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		byte[] rawHmac = mac.doFinal(input.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		return Long.toString(timestamp) + "-" + toHex(rawHmac); //$NON-NLS-1$
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/HttpAuthMethod.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/HttpAuthMethod.java
index fb03190b02..69745eb310 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/HttpAuthMethod.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/HttpAuthMethod.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.HDR_AUTHORIZATION;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.HDR_WWW_AUTHENTICATE;
 
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ abstract class HttpAuthMethod {
 		@Override
 		void configureRequest(HttpConnection conn) throws IOException {
 			String ident = user + ":" + pass; //$NON-NLS-1$
-			String enc = Base64.encodeBytes(ident.getBytes(CHARSET));
+			String enc = Base64.encodeBytes(ident.getBytes(UTF_8));
 			conn.setRequestProperty(HDR_AUTHORIZATION, type.getSchemeName()
 					+ " " + enc); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		}
@@ -430,15 +430,15 @@ abstract class HttpAuthMethod {
 
 		private static String H(String data) {
 			MessageDigest md = newMD5();
-			md.update(data.getBytes(CHARSET));
+			md.update(data.getBytes(UTF_8));
 			return LHEX(md.digest());
 		}
 
 		private static String KD(String secret, String data) {
 			MessageDigest md = newMD5();
-			md.update(secret.getBytes(CHARSET));
+			md.update(secret.getBytes(UTF_8));
 			md.update((byte) ':');
-			md.update(data.getBytes(CHARSET));
+			md.update(data.getBytes(UTF_8));
 			return LHEX(md.digest());
 		}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineIn.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineIn.java
index cc556f8af6..c6e19d5762 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineIn.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineIn.java
@@ -45,13 +45,14 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.text.MessageFormat;
 
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.PackProtocolException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.internal.JGitText;
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.MutableObjectId;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.IO;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils;
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ public class PacketLineIn {
 		if (raw[len - 1] == '\n')
 			len--;
 
-		String s = RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, raw, 0, len);
+		String s = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, raw, 0, len);
 		log.debug("git< " + s); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		return s;
 	}
@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ public class PacketLineIn {
 
 		IO.readFully(in, raw, 0, len);
 
-		String s = RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, raw, 0, len);
+		String s = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, raw, 0, len);
 		log.debug("git< " + s); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		return s;
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineOut.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineOut.java
index a26d1d77d6..e9400919a8 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineOut.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PacketLineOut.java
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 
@@ -141,7 +143,7 @@ public class PacketLineOut {
 		out.write(lenbuffer, 0, 4);
 		out.write(buf, pos, len);
 		if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
-			String s = RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, buf, pos, len);
+			String s = RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, buf, pos, len);
 			log.debug("git> " + s); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/ProgressSpinner.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/ProgressSpinner.java
index 2364434b0f..41af8078c8 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/ProgressSpinner.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/ProgressSpinner.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ public class ProgressSpinner {
 	private void write(String s) {
 		if (write) {
 			try {
-				out.write(s.getBytes(CHARSET));
+				out.write(s.getBytes(UTF_8));
 				out.flush();
 			} catch (IOException e) {
 				write = false;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PushCertificateIdent.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PushCertificateIdent.java
index 178c80d22e..f9fddbe889 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PushCertificateIdent.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PushCertificateIdent.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils.lastIndexOfTrim;
 
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ public class PushCertificateIdent {
 	 */
 	public static PushCertificateIdent parse(String str) {
 		MutableInteger p = new MutableInteger();
-		byte[] raw = str.getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] raw = str.getBytes(UTF_8);
 		int tzBegin = raw.length - 1;
 		tzBegin = lastIndexOfTrim(raw, ' ', tzBegin);
 		if (tzBegin < 0 || raw[tzBegin] != ' ') {
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ public class PushCertificateIdent {
 				idEnd = raw.length;
 			}
 		}
-		String id = new String(raw, 0, idEnd, CHARSET);
+		String id = new String(raw, 0, idEnd, UTF_8);
 
 		return new PushCertificateIdent(str, id, when * 1000L, tz);
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PushCertificateStore.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PushCertificateStore.java
index 7f5a3408e3..aeca63500a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PushCertificateStore.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/PushCertificateStore.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.OBJ_BLOB;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.OBJ_COMMIT;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.FileMode.TYPE_FILE;
@@ -292,7 +292,8 @@ public class PushCertificateStore implements AutoCloseable {
 		ObjectLoader loader =
 				tw.getObjectReader().open(tw.getObjectId(0), OBJ_BLOB);
 		try (InputStream in = loader.openStream();
-				Reader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, CHARSET))) {
+				Reader r = new BufferedReader(
+						new InputStreamReader(in, UTF_8))) {
 			return PushCertificateParser.fromReader(r);
 		}
 	}
@@ -473,7 +474,7 @@ public class PushCertificateStore implements AutoCloseable {
 
 		DirCacheEditor editor = dc.editor();
 		String certText = pc.cert.toText() + pc.cert.getSignature();
-		final ObjectId certId = inserter.insert(OBJ_BLOB, certText.getBytes(CHARSET));
+		final ObjectId certId = inserter.insert(OBJ_BLOB, certText.getBytes(UTF_8));
 		boolean any = false;
 		for (ReceiveCommand cmd : pc.cert.getCommands()) {
 			if (byRef != null && !commandsEqual(cmd, byRef.get(cmd.getRefName()))) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/RefAdvertiser.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/RefAdvertiser.java
index dc1871b729..4662435ea7 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/RefAdvertiser.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/RefAdvertiser.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.OBJECT_ID_STRING_LENGTH;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.transport.GitProtocolConstants.OPTION_SYMREF;
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository;
 public abstract class RefAdvertiser {
 	/** Advertiser which frames lines in a {@link PacketLineOut} format. */
 	public static class PacketLineOutRefAdvertiser extends RefAdvertiser {
-		private final CharsetEncoder utf8 = CHARSET.newEncoder();
+		private final CharsetEncoder utf8 = UTF_8.newEncoder();
 		private final PacketLineOut pckOut;
 
 		private byte[] binArr = new byte[256];
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/SideBandInputStream.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/SideBandInputStream.java
index 3100cb444a..90600cbb98 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/SideBandInputStream.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/SideBandInputStream.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.transport.SideBandOutputStream.HDR_SIZE;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -57,7 +58,6 @@ import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.PackProtocolException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.TransportException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.internal.JGitText;
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ProgressMonitor;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.IO;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils;
@@ -257,6 +257,6 @@ public class SideBandInputStream extends InputStream {
 	private String readString(int len) throws IOException {
 		final byte[] raw = new byte[len];
 		IO.readFully(rawIn, raw, 0, len);
-		return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, raw, 0, len);
+		return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, raw, 0, len);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/Transport.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/Transport.java
index d342ef46df..621c2ea56c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/Transport.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/Transport.java
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ public abstract class Transport implements AutoCloseable {
 
 	private static void scan(ClassLoader ldr, URL url) {
 		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
-				new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), CHARSET))) {
+				new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), UTF_8))) {
 			String line;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
 				line = line.trim();
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/TransportHttp.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/TransportHttp.java
index ee64a87f76..8b41ab0466 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/TransportHttp.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/TransportHttp.java
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.HEAD;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.ENCODING_GZIP;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.ENCODING_X_GZIP;
@@ -426,7 +427,7 @@ public class TransportHttp extends HttpTransport implements WalkTransport,
 	}
 
 	private BufferedReader toBufferedReader(InputStream in) {
-		return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, Constants.CHARSET));
+		return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	/** {@inheritDoc} */
@@ -952,7 +953,7 @@ public class TransportHttp extends HttpTransport implements WalkTransport,
 			// Line oriented readable content is likely to compress well.
 			// Request gzip encoding.
 			InputStream is = open(path, AcceptEncoding.GZIP).in;
-			return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, Constants.CHARSET));
+			return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, UTF_8));
 		}
 
 		@Override
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/WalkRemoteObjectDatabase.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/WalkRemoteObjectDatabase.java
index aa71c9445a..6d4df4fbad 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/WalkRemoteObjectDatabase.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/WalkRemoteObjectDatabase.java
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
@@ -363,7 +365,7 @@ abstract class WalkRemoteObjectDatabase {
 	 */
 	BufferedReader openReader(String path) throws IOException {
 		final InputStream is = open(path).in;
-		return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, Constants.CHARSET));
+		return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, UTF_8));
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/AbstractTreeIterator.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/AbstractTreeIterator.java
index 470ed02841..335abe1b5b 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/AbstractTreeIterator.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/AbstractTreeIterator.java
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.CharBuffer;
@@ -182,7 +184,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractTreeIterator {
 		if (prefix != null && prefix.length() > 0) {
 			final ByteBuffer b;
 
-			b = Constants.CHARSET.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(prefix));
+			b = UTF_8.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(prefix));
 			pathLen = b.limit();
 			path = new byte[Math.max(DEFAULT_PATH_SIZE, pathLen + 1)];
 			b.get(path, 0, pathLen);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/TreeWalk.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/TreeWalk.java
index d500aae681..82675859dd 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/TreeWalk.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/TreeWalk.java
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -1045,7 +1047,7 @@ public class TreeWalk implements AutoCloseable, AttributesProvider {
 		final AbstractTreeIterator t = currentHead;
 		final int off = t.pathOffset;
 		final int end = t.pathLen;
-		return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, t.path, off, end);
+		return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, t.path, off, end);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -1378,11 +1380,11 @@ public class TreeWalk implements AutoCloseable, AttributesProvider {
 	}
 
 	static String pathOf(AbstractTreeIterator t) {
-		return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, t.path, 0, t.pathLen);
+		return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, t.path, 0, t.pathLen);
 	}
 
 	static String pathOf(byte[] buf, int pos, int end) {
-		return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, buf, pos, end);
+		return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, buf, pos, end);
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/WorkingTreeIterator.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/WorkingTreeIterator.java
index 179fd46791..7c6bfb9d63 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/WorkingTreeIterator.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/WorkingTreeIterator.java
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
@@ -1413,7 +1415,7 @@ public abstract class WorkingTreeIterator extends AbstractTreeIterator {
 
 		IteratorState(WorkingTreeOptions options) {
 			this.options = options;
-			this.nameEncoder = Constants.CHARSET.newEncoder();
+			this.nameEncoder = UTF_8.newEncoder();
 		}
 
 		void initializeReadBuffer() {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/Base64.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/Base64.java
index 442f0793fb..69f8547452 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/Base64.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/Base64.java
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.text.MessageFormat;
 import java.util.Arrays;
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ public class Base64 {
 				+ "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" // //$NON-NLS-1$
 				+ "0123456789" // //$NON-NLS-1$
 				+ "+/" // //$NON-NLS-1$
-		).getBytes(CHARSET);
+		).getBytes(UTF_8);
 
 		DEC = new byte[128];
 		Arrays.fill(DEC, INVALID_DEC);
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ public class Base64 {
 			e += 4;
 		}
 
-		return new String(outBuff, 0, e, CHARSET);
+		return new String(outBuff, 0, e, UTF_8);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ public class Base64 {
 	 * @return the decoded data
 	 */
 	public static byte[] decode(String s) {
-		byte[] bytes = s.getBytes(CHARSET);
+		byte[] bytes = s.getBytes(UTF_8);
 		return decode(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Cygwin.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Cygwin.java
index 3393fbfd1d..e5c8d9d398 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Cygwin.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Cygwin.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util;
 
-import static org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants.CHARSET;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ public class FS_Win32_Cygwin extends FS_Win32 {
 			try {
 				w = readPipe(dir, //
 					new String[] { cygpath, "--windows", "--absolute", pn }, // //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
-					CHARSET.name());
+					UTF_8.name());
 			} catch (CommandFailedException e) {
 				LOG.warn(e.getMessage());
 				return null;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FileUtils.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FileUtils.java
index 2f547c15b0..ecfd31647d 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FileUtils.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FileUtils.java
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.file.AtomicMoveNotSupportedException;
@@ -712,7 +714,7 @@ public class FileUtils {
 		Path nioPath = toPath(file);
 		if (Files.isSymbolicLink(nioPath))
 			return Files.readSymbolicLink(nioPath).toString()
-					.getBytes(Constants.CHARSET).length;
+					.getBytes(UTF_8).length;
 		return Files.size(nioPath);
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/QuotedString.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/QuotedString.java
index 4d58d0614a..a55cad3705 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/QuotedString.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/QuotedString.java
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
@@ -181,7 +183,7 @@ public abstract class QuotedString {
 					continue;
 				}
 			}
-			return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, r, 0, rPtr);
+			return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, r, 0, rPtr);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -294,7 +296,7 @@ public abstract class QuotedString {
 		public String dequote(byte[] in, int inPtr, int inEnd) {
 			if (2 <= inEnd - inPtr && in[inPtr] == '"' && in[inEnd - 1] == '"')
 				return dq(in, inPtr + 1, inEnd - 1);
-			return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, in, inPtr, inEnd);
+			return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, in, inPtr, inEnd);
 		}
 
 		private static String dq(byte[] in, int inPtr, int inEnd) {
@@ -370,7 +372,7 @@ public abstract class QuotedString {
 				}
 			}
 
-			return RawParseUtils.decode(Constants.CHARSET, r, 0, rPtr);
+			return RawParseUtils.decode(UTF_8, r, 0, rPtr);
 		}
 
 		private GitPathStyle() {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/io/MessageWriter.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/io/MessageWriter.java
index 94e5ef3d74..12d809b513 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/io/MessageWriter.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/io/MessageWriter.java
@@ -43,13 +43,14 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.util.io;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.Writer;
 
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ public class MessageWriter extends Writer {
 	 */
 	public MessageWriter() {
 		buf = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		enc = new OutputStreamWriter(getRawStream(), Constants.CHARSET);
+		enc = new OutputStreamWriter(getRawStream(), UTF_8);
 	}
 
 	/** {@inheritDoc} */
author	David Pursehouse	2018-09-04 01:53:10 +0000
committer	David Pursehouse	2018-09-04 01:53:10 +0000
commit	30c6c7542190c149e2aee792f992a312a5fc5793 (patch)
tree	12a8858313ee88ebf87a1a30840128d1a2e19a99
parent	685f8c8dbe9e2f1e139a55970588f92d5482b3ba (diff)
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