[UIMA-2376] InlineXMLCasConsumer fails depending on locale

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.1SDK, 2.4.0SDK
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.1SDK
• Component/s: Core Java Framework, Examples
• Labels: encoding locale unicode
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Jens Grivolla
• Created: 21/Feb/12 17:45
• Updated: 02/May/12 17:59
• Resolved: 02/May/12 17:59

Description

It appears that InlineXMLCasConsumer depends on the system locale for some internal transformations. The output appears to be written in UTF8 (outStream.write(xmlAnnotations.getBytes("UTF-8"))) but when used on a machine with a locale of ASCII all accented characters get broken.

According to Thilo Goetz, the problem is likely caused by locale-dependent use of ByteArray in CasToInlineXml.java, e.g.:

// return XML string
return new String(byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray());