invalid encoding character 2003-09-24 - By Christopher Ebert
Hi,
When Java reads a stream of bytes into characters and encounters a character
outside of the encoding (e.g. not in the ISO-8859-1 character set) it replaces
the character with a '?'. I believe this behaviour is configurable, but I don't
know how (you might have to register your own converter). By the time Xerces
(or Xalan) sees the character, it's too late. I'm not sure where you configure
it, but looking at the source code, it's a 'substitution mode' flag - there are
methods on CharToByteConverter (and ByteToCharConverter if you're going the
other way) to set it, but I'm not sure how you can set it in your case. If you
set it to 'false', the converter will throw an exception if it encounters an
unmappable byte sequence (or charater).
Chris
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