[kepler-dev] string encodings

[Tobin Fricke]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Tobin Fricke wrote:

> I am using FileReader to read a binary file into a StringToken.

This is somewhat suspicious (in FileReader.java) -- note the silent
newline translation that makes FileReader break with binary files:

            BufferedReader reader = fileOrURL.openForReading();
            StringBuffer lineBuffer = new StringBuffer();
            String newline = System.getProperty("line.separator");
            while (true) {
                String line = reader.readLine();
                if (line == null) break;
                lineBuffer = lineBuffer.append(line);
                lineBuffer = lineBuffer.append(newline);
            }
            fileOrURL.close();
            output.broadcast(new StringToken(lineBuffer.toString()));

--tobin