Elliotte writes: > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4646959.html
> Youch. What nasty bug. And contrary to Sun's claims this is a bug in > Java 1.4. If I'm reading this right, any XML parser using > InputStreamReader to translate UTF-8 into Java strings and chars is > likely to miss malformedness errors that arise from bad UTF-8. This > also seems to affect other character sets as well. > > It looks like you could work around this in 1.4 to have > InputStreamReader report the bad data. However, that code would not > be portable back to Java 1.3 (which does not have this bug). Thus > you'd need separate code bases for 1.3 and 1.4 or some really ugly > reflection based code. We really need to get this fixed. I must admit I am not too well versed on the intricacies of character encodings. My goal was (and is) simply to have the actual byte of data itself without it being processed in any sort of way. Thank you for your input. Regards, Elizabeth --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
