Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:15:00 -0800 (PST)
From: David Mendenhall <###@###.###>

Starting in merlin build 46, text data transfer is completely broken on
Windows. I suspect the bug is caused by the new java.nio packages, but I
have not finished my evaluation.

In the course of testing, I wrote the following program:

public class ByteOrderTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
byte[] bytes = { 102, 0, 111, 0, 111, 0 };

System.out.println("utf-16le: " + new String(bytes, "utf-16le"));
System.out.println("utf-16be: " + new String(bytes, "utf-16be"));
    }
}

On b45, I saw the output I expected:

utf-16le: foo
utf-16be: ???

On b46, I saw:

Exception in thread "main" java.nio.BufferOverflowException
        at java.nio.Buffer.nextPutIndex(Buffer.java:367)
        at java.nio.HeapCharBuffer.put(HeapCharBuffer.java:69)
        at java.nio.CharBuffer.put(CharBuffer.java:766)
        at java.nio.CharBuffer.put(CharBuffer.java:790)
        at java.nio.CharsetDecoder.decode(CharsetDecoder.java:292)
        at java.lang.StringCoding$CharsetSD.decode(StringCoding.java:159)
        at java.lang.StringCoding.decode(StringCoding.java:189)
        at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:326)
        at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:347)
        at ByteOrderTest.main(ByteOrderTest.java:5)

And on the newly promoted Solaris b47 (haven't tested Windows):

utf-16le: ?
utf-16be: ?

al.smith@eng 2001-01-23
Regression test java/lang/String/Encodings.java Failing in Merlin build 48.

al.smith@eng 2001-04-26
Verified in build 61