Name: krT82822 Date: 11/22/99


orig synopsis: "Undefined behaviour of supported encodings"

java version "1.2"
Classic VM (build JDK-1.2-V, native threads)
The API of the class OutputStreamWriter states:

...
The encoding used by an OutputStreamWriter may be specified by
name
...

being the name that of a character encoding as reported in:

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/internat/encoding.doc.html

However, the behaviour of such converters is nowhere specifed
with respect to the handling of characters which have no
equivalent in the destination encoding. It is common practice
among converter programs to replace characters which have no
correspondence with "?". This behaviour, however, should be
documented since it is important for the user to know what
will be eventually the contents of the written file.
(Review ID: 97514)
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