Possible encoding related bug

[Sasa Bojanic]

Hi,   I think that that there is an encoding related bug in Xerces2.5. When using DOM parser, and trying to parse a document that contains characters that do not belong to the character set that correspond to the specified document encoding (e.g. the character � is contained in the document which encoding is specified as "us-ascii"), the parser is crashing.   Here is the code snippet:         try {          DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();          parser.parse(toParse);       }catch (Exception ex) {          ex.printStackTrace();       } * "toParse" is the path to the following document:   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?> <Package Id="pkg1">   <!-- � -->     <PackageHeader>         <XPDLVersion>1.0</XPDLVersion>         <Vendor>Together</Vendor>         <Created>2003-08-20 10:00:49</Created>     </PackageHeader> </Package> The parser crashes because of � character, and I get the following stack trace: java.io.IOException: Byte "228" is not a member of the (7-bit) ASCII character set.         at org.apache.xerces.impl.io.ASCIIReader.read(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.impl.XML11EntityScanner.skipSpaces(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)         at XML.main(XML.java:25)   When I use Xerces2.4, everything goes fine!   Regards, Sasa.