JDK-8216140 : Correct UnicodeDecoder U+FFFE handling
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.nio.charsets
  • Affected Version: 11,13
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2019-01-03
  • Updated: 2019-06-18
  • Resolved: 2019-01-11
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13 b04Fixed
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Description
Discussion thread: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2018-December/057639.html

Currently UnicodeDecoder deals with U+FFFE in the middle of a string as "malformed" as it is a non-character. This has been correct up until Unicode 7. However Unicode 7 includes the corrigendum (http://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum9.html) that changed the definition of non-characters. UnicodeDecoder's behavior should be modified to conform to it.
Comments
As Unicode 7 is supported in JDK 11 (since JDK 9 / JEP 227, AFAIU), it should be fixed there as well?Added "11" as affected versions.
18-06-2019

In JDK-8150449, the suggested fix is to remove the code that make FFFE as malformed. There may be other option to make it unmappable instead of malformed, but not only it is incompatible, it is still not conforming to the revised recommendation from Unicode, as other non-character code points are still pass through. (From the corrigendum) --- Noncharacters consist of the values U+nFFFE and U+nFFFF (where n is from 0 to 1016) and the values U+FDD0..U+FDEF. ---
09-01-2019

As of JDK8, this request was closed as "not an issue."
04-01-2019