Question

When I run the following program:

public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
{
    byte str[] = {(byte)0xEC, (byte)0x96, (byte)0xB4};
    String s = new String(str, "UTF-8");
}

on Linux and inspect the value of s in jdb, I correctly get:

 s = "ì–´"

on Windows, I incorrectly get:

s = "?"

My byte sequence is a valid UTF-8 character in Korean, why would it be producing two very different results?

Answer 1

It correctly prints “어” on my computer (Ubuntu Linux), as described in Code Table Korean Hangul. Windows command prompt is known to have issues with encoding, don’t bother.

Your code is fine.