Some java.util.zip APIs specify the maximum length of string as a parameter. For example, java.util.zip.ZipEntry.ZipEntry(String name) 
states:

IllegalArgumentException - if the entry name is longer than 0xFFFF bytes

However, this statement is not true if the string is created
with 0xFFFF + 1 bytes under UTF-16 encoding. See the following program:

import java.util.zip.*;
import java.io.*;

public class ZipEntryTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        try {
            ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(new String(new byte[0xffff + 1], "UTF-8"));
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {            
            System.out.println("IllegalArgumentException is thrown as expected for UTF-8 encoding");
        }
        try {
            ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(new String(new byte[0xffff + 1], "UTF-16"));
            System.out.println("No exception is thrown for ZipEntry created with UTF-16 encoding");
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }            
                    
    }
}

The output is:

IllegalArgumentException is thrown as expected for UTF-8 encoding
No exception is thrown for ZipEntry created with UTF-16 encoding

So it seems that the maximum length of string should be defined
as number of characters, instead of number of bytes.

The following methods are affected by this bug:

ZipEntry.ZipEntry(String name)
ZipEntry.setComment(String comment)
ZipOutputStream.setComment(String comment)

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