>Number:         2319
>Category:       java
>Synopsis:       invalid UTF-8 sequences should be rejected
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 19 08:36:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tom Tromey
>Release:        unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:
Currently the compiler accepts invalid UTF-8 sequences
when reading a file.  Instead we ought to diagnose
such sequences as errors.

Try compiling this Latin-1 encoded program with
--encoding=UTF-8 to see the problem:

public class Hello
{
  public static void main ( String []arguments)
  {
    System.out.println ("Liberté, égalité, fraternité !");
  }
}
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>Fix:

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