JDK-4498298 : Writing a manifest with doublebyte characters to a stream silently corrupts it
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.util
  • Affected Version: 1.3.1
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: windows_nt
  • CPU: other
  • Submitted: 2001-08-30
  • Updated: 2002-11-17
  • Resolved: 2002-11-17
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1.4.2 mantisFixed
Description
Java users in e.g. Japan can create classes with doublebyte names, and naturally expect to be able to use the class names as section names, values of manifest entries, etc. But Attributes.write silently corrupts the doublebyte characters by writing only the low bytes.  There's a comment to the effect that UTF8 values should be handled.  It's correct.

This situation is also mentioned in Bug 4260272.
Comments
CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: mantis FIXED IN: mantis INTEGRATED IN: mantis mantis-b08
14-06-2004
WORK AROUND None possible for a development tool. While it would be possible to replace the java.util.jar classes for writing a manifest, reading a manifest from a stream has the same problem (it reads individual bytes, not UTF8 characters) so producing a UTF8 manifest would still result in errors when the manifest is read at runtime.
11-06-2004
SUGGESTED FIX Write (and read back) text values as UTF8 rather than as bytes.
11-06-2004
PUBLIC COMMENTS To allow all valid Java class names to be mentioned in a jar manifest, the manifest must be treated as UTF8.
10-06-2004
EVALUATION target mantis, use utf8 encoding for "value" in manifest ###@###.### 2002-11-08
08-11-2002