diff --git a/expectations/knownfailures.txt b/expectations/knownfailures.txt
index 77e5c7f..85bfd2d 100644
--- a/expectations/knownfailures.txt
+++ b/expectations/knownfailures.txt
@@ -249,11 +249,6 @@
   bug: 2702411
 },
 {
-  description: "Pre-NIO aliases not implemented",
-  name: "libcore.java.nio.charset.CharsetTest#test_preNioAliases",
-  bug: 3032697
-},
-{
   description: "HTTPS proxy broken on host",
   names: [
     "org.apache.harmony.luni.tests.internal.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionTest#testConsequentProxyConnection",
diff --git a/luni/src/main/java/java/io/HistoricalCharsetNames.java b/luni/src/main/java/java/io/HistoricalCharsetNames.java
deleted file mode 100644
index b0d5498..0000000
--- a/luni/src/main/java/java/io/HistoricalCharsetNames.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,175 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- *  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- *  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- *  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- *  limitations under the License.
- */
-package java.io;
-
-import java.nio.charset.Charset;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-
-/**
- * This could have been in Charset or Charsets, but all code uses those classes whereas no code
- * should need to use this, so let's not make good code pay to initialize this map.
- */
-class HistoricalCharsetNames {
-    private static final HashMap<String, String> historicalNames = new HashMap<String, String>();
-    static {
-        historicalNames.put("Big5-HKSCS", "Big5_HKSCS");
-        historicalNames.put("EUC-JP", "EUC_JP");
-        historicalNames.put("EUC-KR", "EUC_KR");
-        historicalNames.put("GB2312", "EUC_CN");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM-Thai", "Cp838");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM00858", "Cp858");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01140", "Cp1140");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01141", "Cp1141");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01142", "Cp1142");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01143", "Cp1143");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01144", "Cp1144");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01145", "Cp1145");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01146", "Cp1146");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01147", "Cp1147");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01148", "Cp1148");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM01149", "Cp1149");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM037", "Cp037");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM1026", "Cp1026");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM1047", "Cp1047");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM273", "Cp273");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM277", "Cp277");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM278", "Cp278");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM280", "Cp280");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM284", "Cp284");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM285", "Cp285");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM297", "Cp297");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM420", "Cp420");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM424", "Cp424");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM437", "Cp437");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM500", "Cp500");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM775", "Cp775");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM850", "Cp850");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM852", "Cp852");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM855", "Cp855");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM857", "Cp857");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM860", "Cp860");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM861", "Cp861");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM862", "Cp862");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM863", "Cp863");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM864", "Cp864");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM865", "Cp865");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM866", "Cp866");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM868", "Cp868");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM869", "Cp869");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM870", "Cp870");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM871", "Cp871");
-        historicalNames.put("IBM918", "Cp918");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-2022-CN", "ISO2022CN");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-2022-JP", "ISO2022JP");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-2022-KR", "ISO2022KR");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-1", "ISO8859_1");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-13", "ISO8859_13");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-15", "ISO8859_15");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-2", "ISO8859_2");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-3", "ISO8859_3");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-4", "ISO8859_4");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-5", "ISO8859_5");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-6", "ISO8859_6");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-7", "ISO8859_7");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-8", "ISO8859_8");
-        historicalNames.put("ISO-8859-9", "ISO8859_9");
-        historicalNames.put("KOI8-R", "KOI8_R");
-        historicalNames.put("Shift_JIS", "SJIS");
-        historicalNames.put("TIS-620", "TIS620");
-        historicalNames.put("US-ASCII", "ASCII");
-        historicalNames.put("UTF-16BE", "UnicodeBigUnmarked");
-        historicalNames.put("UTF-16LE", "UnicodeLittleUnmarked");
-        historicalNames.put("UTF-8", "UTF8");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-1250", "Cp1250");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-1251", "Cp1251");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-1252", "Cp1252");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-1253", "Cp1253");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-1254", "Cp1254");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-1255", "Cp1255");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-1256", "Cp1256");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-1257", "Cp1257");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-1258", "Cp1258");
-        historicalNames.put("windows-31j", "MS932");
-        historicalNames.put("x-Big5-Solaris", "Big5_Solaris");
-        historicalNames.put("x-euc-jp-linux", "EUC_JP_LINUX");
-        historicalNames.put("x-EUC-TW", "EUC_TW");
-        historicalNames.put("x-eucJP-Open", "EUC_JP_Solaris");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1006", "Cp1006");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1025", "Cp1025");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1046", "Cp1046");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1097", "Cp1097");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1098", "Cp1098");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1112", "Cp1112");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1122", "Cp1122");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1123", "Cp1123");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1124", "Cp1124");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1381", "Cp1381");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM1383", "Cp1383");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM33722", "Cp33722");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM737", "Cp737");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM856", "Cp856");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM874", "Cp874");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM875", "Cp875");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM921", "Cp921");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM922", "Cp922");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM930", "Cp930");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM933", "Cp933");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM935", "Cp935");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM937", "Cp937");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM939", "Cp939");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM942", "Cp942");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM942C", "Cp942C");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM943", "Cp943");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM943C", "Cp943C");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM948", "Cp948");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM949", "Cp949");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM949C", "Cp949C");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM950", "Cp950");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM964", "Cp964");
-        historicalNames.put("x-IBM970", "Cp970");
-        historicalNames.put("x-ISCII91", "ISCII91");
-        historicalNames.put("x-ISO-2022-CN-CNS", "ISO2022CN");
-        historicalNames.put("x-ISO-2022-CN-GB", "ISO2022CN");
-        historicalNames.put("x-JISAutoDetect", "JISAutoDetect");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacArabic", "MacArabic");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacCentralEurope", "MacCentralEurope");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacCroatian", "MacCroatian");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacCyrillic", "MacCyrillic");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacDingbat", "MacDingbat");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacGreek", "MacGreek");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacHebrew", "MacHebrew");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacIceland", "MacIceland");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacRoman", "MacRoman");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacRomania", "MacRomania");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacSymbol", "MacSymbol");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacThai", "MacThai");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacTurkish", "MacTurkish");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MacUkraine", "MacUkraine");
-        historicalNames.put("x-MS950-HKSCS", "MS950_HKSCS");
-        historicalNames.put("x-mswin-936", "MS936");
-        historicalNames.put("x-PCK", "PCK");
-        historicalNames.put("x-windows-874", "MS874");
-        historicalNames.put("x-windows-949", "MS949");
-        historicalNames.put("x-windows-950", "MS950");
-    }
-
-    public static String get(Charset charset) {
-        String modernName = charset.name();
-        String result = historicalNames.get(modernName);
-        return (result != null) ? result : modernName;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/luni/src/main/java/java/io/InputStreamReader.java b/luni/src/main/java/java/io/InputStreamReader.java
index f474ab9..01e7f29 100644
--- a/luni/src/main/java/java/io/InputStreamReader.java
+++ b/luni/src/main/java/java/io/InputStreamReader.java
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
     }
 
     /**
-     * Returns the historical name of the encoding used by this writer to convert characters to
+     * Returns the canonical name of the encoding used by this writer to convert characters to
      * bytes, or null if this writer has been closed. Most callers should probably keep
      * track of the String or Charset they passed in; this method may not return the same
      * name.
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
         if (!isOpen()) {
             return null;
         }
-        return HistoricalCharsetNames.get(decoder.charset());
+        return decoder.charset().name();
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/luni/src/main/java/java/io/OutputStreamWriter.java b/luni/src/main/java/java/io/OutputStreamWriter.java
index 5dffdfe..d69c87a 100644
--- a/luni/src/main/java/java/io/OutputStreamWriter.java
+++ b/luni/src/main/java/java/io/OutputStreamWriter.java
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
     }
 
     /**
-     * Returns the historical name of the encoding used by this writer to convert characters to
+     * Returns the canonical name of the encoding used by this writer to convert characters to
      * bytes, or null if this writer has been closed. Most callers should probably keep
      * track of the String or Charset they passed in; this method may not return the same
      * name.
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
         if (encoder == null) {
             return null;
         }
-        return HistoricalCharsetNames.get(encoder.charset());
+        return encoder.charset().name();
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/luni/src/main/java/java/nio/charset/Charset.java b/luni/src/main/java/java/nio/charset/Charset.java
index 400aa8b..02cd42f 100644
--- a/luni/src/main/java/java/nio/charset/Charset.java
+++ b/luni/src/main/java/java/nio/charset/Charset.java
@@ -371,9 +371,7 @@
     public abstract CharsetDecoder newDecoder();
 
     /**
-     * Gets the canonical name of this charset.
-     *
-     * @return this charset's name in canonical form.
+     * Returns the canonical name of this charset.
      */
     public final String name() {
         return this.canonicalName;
diff --git a/luni/src/test/java/libcore/java/nio/charset/CharsetTest.java b/luni/src/test/java/libcore/java/nio/charset/CharsetTest.java
index 24daa52..ddc2b29 100644
--- a/luni/src/test/java/libcore/java/nio/charset/CharsetTest.java
+++ b/luni/src/test/java/libcore/java/nio/charset/CharsetTest.java
@@ -199,17 +199,6 @@
         assertDecodes(cs, "a\u0666", 'a', 0, 0, 0, 0x66, 0x06, 0, 0);
     }
 
-    public void test_preNioAliases() throws Exception {
-        // Various pre-nio java.lang/java.io encoding names are translated to nio charsets.
-        assertEquals("UTF-16BE", Charset.forName("UnicodeBigUnmarked").name());
-        assertEquals("UTF-16LE", Charset.forName("UnicodeLittleUnmarked").name());
-        assertEquals("UTF-16", Charset.forName("Unicode").name());
-        assertEquals("UTF-16", Charset.forName("UnicodeBig").name());
-        assertEquals("x-UTF-16LE-BOM", Charset.forName("UnicodeLittle").name());
-        assertEquals("X-UTF-32BE-BOM", Charset.forName("UTF_32BE_BOM").name());
-        assertEquals("X-UTF-32LE-BOM", Charset.forName("UTF_32LE_BOM").name());
-    }
-
     private byte[] toByteArray(int[] ints) {
         byte[] result = new byte[ints.length];
         for (int i = 0; i < ints.length; ++i) {