masayoshi.okutsu@Eng 1997-01-09
The description below is from Fujitsu. Note that the description includes
EUCJIS characters.
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  On windows environment, exception occurs in Stdin using
BurreredReader.


  Source program

import java.io.*;

public class a{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        InputStreamReader InputSR = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
        BufferedReader BufRead = new BufferedReader(InputSR);
        try{
            System.out.print("Stdin a letter > ");
            int i = BufRead.read();
            System.out.println("Stdout a letter > "+new Character((char)i));
        }
        catch(IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}


  Execution result

- PC
[F:\TEMP\io]java a
Stdin a letter > java.io.IOException
    at java.io.BufferedInputStream.available(BufferedInputStream.java:181)
    at java.io.InputStreamReader.fill(InputStreamReader.java:216)
    at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:273)
    at java.io.BufferedReader.fill(BufferedReader.java:141)
    at java.io.BufferedReader.read(BufferedReader.java:158)
    at a.main(a.java:9)

[F:\TEMP\io]

- Solaris
% java a
Stdin a letter > ñó // 'ñó'ñ‘©¢Óãž–¤
Stdout a letter > ñó
%