[jcifs] UnicodeLittleUnmarked -> UTF-16LE

[Michael B Allen]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Marco Nelissen <marco.nelissen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I had the exact same problem when trying to use JCIFS on the Android
>> platform. The problem turned out to be that JCIFS uses the
>> "UnicodeLittleUnmarked" encoding instead of the more standard "UTF-16LE".
>> They're equivalent, but the latter is required for VMs to implement, while
>> the former is not.
>> Replacing all instances of "UnicodeLittleUnmarked" with "UTF-16LE" made it
>> work, but it seems like it would be better for JCIFS to use UTF-16LE
>> instead, because then I could just include the official prebuilt jar in my
>> app.
>
> There was a time when some VMs did not support "UTF-16LE" and so we
> had to use Java's "UnicodeLittleUnmarked". But I think we're probably
> beyond that at this point so I think it would be safe to move to
> "UTF-16LE". I have added this to the TODO for further investigation.

All instances of UnicodeLittleUnmarked have been replaced with
UTF-16LE in my local copy. This change will be in the next release.

Mike

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