Name: rmT116609 Date: 10/09/2002


FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.4.1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1-b21, mixed mode)

Operating System: kernel 2.4.18 glibc 2.2.4-24

Windows 2000, Solaris 2.8

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
When writing data in the ISO-8859-8 (Hebrew) encoding, the
macron character 0xAF, is not converted. Instead a question
mark is written. However, the macron character does exist in
ISO-8859-8, indeed at the same code point it has in Unicode
and ISO-8859-1. This can be verified at the Unicode web site
at http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-8.TXT

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
Run the attached source code and look at the output.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
The file the attached program produces should contain a
macron. Instead it contains a question mark.

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
import java.io.*;

public class TestHebrew {
    
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream("hebrew.txt");
    OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(fout, "ISO-8859-8");
    out.write((char) 0xAF);
    out.write("\r\n");
    out.flush();
    out.close();
  }
    
}
---------- END SOURCE ----------
(Review ID: 165399)
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