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Re: [patch #2] String.getBytes()

> In this case I think we should just revert to using the 8859_1
> encoding (for now; maybe later utf-8 would be a better choice).

It may be more correct to re-throw a non-checked exception,
on the the theory that it is better to get an exception than
silently do something different than the user asked for.

	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions     bothner@cygnus.com     http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner