Re: [cp-patches] FYI: Patch: character encoder/decoder cleanup/fixes

[Archie Cobbs]

Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> I committed the attached patch to remove the throwing of
> CharConversionException from the character encoders/decoders.
> 
> For encoders, unsupported characters are now always replaced with a '?'
> byte and for the UTF8 decoder, invalid UTF-8 bytes are replaced by a
> Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (\uFFFD) in the output stream.

Just curious.. does this implementation have the same problem as
described in http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4628881 ?
I.e., is it a lossy encoding for "invalid" characters?

-Archie

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