[XERCESC-1947] XMLUTF8Transcoder::transcodeTo fails with an exception when transcoding single characters that require 3 or more bytes as UTF8.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.0, 3.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.2, 3.2.0
• Component/s: Utilities
• Environment: Tested on mac os and debian linux. The failure is only manifest on v3.1.x
• Assignee: Alberto Massari
• Reporter: Ben Griffin
• Created: 08/Oct/10 11:11
• Updated: 28/Feb/15 02:20
• Resolved: 21/Jun/11 14:03

Description

This can be demonstrated with the following 2 lines of code.

const XMLCh uval [] =

{ 0x254B, 0x0000}

; //BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL (needs 3 bytes for utf-8)
char* uc = (char*)TranscodeToStr(uval,"UTF-8").adopt(); cout << uc << endl << flush; XMLString::release(&uc); //faulty exception;

The error is: "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'xercesc_3_1::TranscodingException'"

Issue Links

• relates to: XERCESC-1984 TranscodeToStr::transcode throws an exception when transcoding to UTF-8
• relates to: XERCESC-1987 Transcoding Issue with single XMLCh to utf8