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Xueming Shen: The overhaul of Java UTF-8 charset

The UTF-8 charset implementation (in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun) has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences, since the old implementation might be leveraged in security attacks. Since then I have been asked many times about what this "non-shortest-form" issue is and what the possible impact might be, so here are the answers.


Date: March, 10 2009
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/xuemingshen/entry/the_big_overhaul_of_java


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