[XERCESJ-895] Four byte UTF-8 encodings can encode UCS-4 characters which are beyond the range of legal XML characters (and can't be expressed in Unicode surrogate pairs).

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.1
• Component/s: SAX
• Environment: Operating System: Linux; Platform: PC
• Bugzilla Id: 27083
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: elharo
• Created: 20/Feb/04 00:36
• Updated: 16/Feb/11 23:59
• Resolved: 13/Apr/04 01:43

Description

Xerces fails to report a fatal error through SAX on this document from the XML
conformance test xmlconf/xmltest/not-wf/sa/170.xml

The description of the test is

Four byte UTF-8 encodings can encode UCS-4 characters which are beyond the range
of legal XML characters (and can't be expressed in Unicode surrogate pairs).
This document holds such a character.