Re: byte array to string conversion

[Lars Andersen <lars at rimfaxe dot com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> > > > > > "Lars" == Lars Andersen <lars@rimfaxe.com> writes:
> > > > > >            
>
> Lars> Substitute "iso-8859-1" with "UTF-8" and only Sun jdk works (at least
> Lars> for me)
>
> Are you sure it really works with the JDK?
> The byte buffer you're passing to the String constructor doesn't
> contain a valid UTF-8 sequence.
>
> Tom
>  

Yep.

And in the "UTF-8" case I noticed the following differences between JDK 
and GCJ :

JDK : allBytesString.length() = 256
GCJ : allBytesString.length() = 128

And the characters are offset by 128, so allBytesString.charAt(40) in 
GCJ would match allBytesString.charAt(168) in JDK

/Lars Andersen