When is this going to be deprecated? It is criminal to take a format
and only use it to create the header, leaving the user to ensure that
the character stream is at some point encoded to the correct unicode
format before something actually tries to parse it.
Of course it is because Characters should not need to specify encoding,
but xml IS NOT a character stream - it's an encoded character stream [ie
bytes], and so should not be able to be represented as chars, except
where the users want to mangle it for their old code that was built
around convenience because this constructor was available.
Please stop the madness - just deprecate it and write a nice javadoc
explaining why. You'll probably end up saving 1000s of developer hours
on that change alone.
Stephen
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