[XERCESC-1818] Win32Transcoder can pass illegal parameters to WideCharToMultiByte() and MultiByteToWideChar()

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Utilities
• Environment: Windows
• Assignee: David N Bertoni
• Reporter: David N Bertoni
• Created: 15/Jul/08 00:23
• Updated: 12/Mar/18 03:01
• Resolved: 15/Jul/08 05:22

Description

According to the MSDN documentation, certain encodings limit some of the flags and parameters value that can be passed to these routines:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776420.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776413(VS.85).aspx

If these flags and/or parameters are invalid, the calls fail. I have a patch for this problem.