Since J2SDK 1.4.2_04, an exception is threw when run the following testcase
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal replacement
        at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.replaceWith(CharsetEncoder.java:262)
        at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.<init>(CharsetEncoder.java:180)
        at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.<init>(CharsetEncoder.java:203)
        at sun.nio.cs.ext.DoubleByteEncoder.<init>(DoubleByteEncoder.java:31)
        at sun.nio.cs.ext.JIS_X_0208$Encoder.<init>(JIS_X_0208.java:74)
        at sun.nio.cs.ext.JIS_X_0208.newEncoder(JIS_X_0208.java:35)
        at java.lang.StringCoding$CharsetSE.<init>(StringCoding.java:317)
        at java.lang.StringCoding$CharsetSE.<init>(StringCoding.java:308)
        at java.lang.StringCoding.encode(StringCoding.java:365)
        at java.lang.String.getBytes(String.java:573)
        at CIITest.<init>(CIITest.java:41)
        at CIITest.main(CIITest.java:48)
public class CIITest {
  public CIITest() {
      byte[] tfdElement = null;
      String temp = null;
      byte [] ciiarray;
      ciiarray = new byte[16];
      ciiarray[0] = 0x46;
      ciiarray[1] = 0x7c;
      ciiarray[2] = 0x4b;
      ciiarray[3] = 0x5c;
      ciiarray[4] = 0x45;
      ciiarray[5] = 0x45;
      ciiarray[6] = 0x35;
      ciiarray[7] = 0x24;
      ciiarray[8] = 0x33;
      ciiarray[9] = 0x74;
      ciiarray[10] = 0x3c;
      ciiarray[11] = 0x30;
      ciiarray[12] = 0x32;
      ciiarray[13] = 0x71;
      ciiarray[14] = 0x3c;
      ciiarray[15] = 0x52;
      try {
		  System.out.println("Test JIS0208--->Unicode");
          temp = new String(ciiarray, "JIS0208");
          for (int i=0; i<temp.length(); i++) {
             System.out.println("Pos " + i + ": " + (int)temp.charAt(i));
          }
      }
      catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}
      try {
		  System.out.println("Test Unicode--->JIS0208");
		  tfdElement = temp.getBytes("JIS0208");
		  System.out.println("No exception occurred");
      }
      catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    CIITest CIITest1 = new CIITest();
  }
}