******Testing enviroment***************************************************
Merlin build: Merlin beta-refresh b69
OS : Solaris8 Sparc/X86 ja locale,
              RedHatLinux6.2Jupdate
              WindowsME, Win2K
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Class.newInscance can't handle some specific classes or packages for which name some specific characters are used, therefore NoClassDefFoundError occurs for the classes.


To reproduce,

1. Extract an attached file newInstance_Test.tar.
   The included files are listed in "newInstance_Test_list.txt" (attached).

   *Some java files and a directory named in Japanese are included in it.
   The directory has some Japanese classes and java files(SJIS encoding) for the Japanese classes.

2. Compile the java files below;
   PackageTest.java (EUC encoding)
   URLClassLoaderTest.java (EUC encoding)
   MyClassLoader.java
   Status.java
   Test.java
 
3. Excute PackageTest ---- java PackageTest
You'll see NoClassDefFoundError occurs.

I attached the Exception log for "PackageTest_log.txt" which is included in newInstance_Test.tar because Japanese character can not be displayed properly here.
Please refer the file to see the Exception.

4. Excute URLClassLoaderTest ----
java URLClassLoaderTest http://javasoft.japan.sun.com/i18n-test/URLClassLoaderTest_data/

You'll see NoClassDefFoundError for the same character as above occurs here also.
I attached the Exception log for "URLClassLoaderTest_log.txt" which is included in newInstance_Test.tar
Please refer the file to see the problem.

It seems that newInstance can't recognaize the character properly and recognize as other Japanese character.

***I attached "memo.txt" in which I described how the characrter are recognized incorrectly (EUCJP encoding).***


This is not reproducible with the previous build, b68.