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It's the same problem in general as #2656, arising from Java 9+. We aim to eliminate these from Jython 2.7.2, which I expect we shall release this year. The project has insufficient effort to go back to 2.5.x with fixes, so your route out is via 2.7.x, or stick at Java 8.

A 2.7.0 or 2.7.1 would not be better from this perspective right now, but if you were to use them experimentally it would help prepare your code (and make a step towards a hoped-for 3.x). If non-english text is important to you, as it seems it might, you'll find good and bad here, with str support for UTF-16 gone/broken and increasing conformance to the Python 2.7 model as we go on.

The org.python prefix is the result of repackaging Google code with jarjar as a way to manage dependence on a particular version. However, I feel sure that if you launched with --illegal-access=warn, there would be many others.