IV90164: JAVA LAUNCHER FAILS TO LAUNCH JAVA APPLICATION IF THE PATH HAS UNICODE SUPPLEMENTARY CHARACTERS

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Error Message: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error
  decoding percent encoded characters
  .
  Stack Trace: Exception in thread "main"
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error decoding percent
  encoded characters
     at sun.net.www.ParseUtil.decode(ParseUtil.java:228)
     at
  sun.misc.URLClassPath$FileLoader.<init>(URLClassPath.java:1308)
     at
  sun.misc.URLClassPath$3.rtFileLoader(URLClassPath.java:579)
     at sun.misc.URLClassPath$3.run(URLClassPath.java:560)
     at sun.misc.URLClassPath$3.run(URLClassPath.java:555)
     at
  java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.jav
  a:650)
     at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getLoader(URLClassPath.java:554)
     at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getLoader(URLClassPath.java:512)
     at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:337)
     at
  java.net.URLClassLoader$ClassFinder.run(URLClassLoader.java:1180
  )
     at
  java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.jav
  a:686)
     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:602
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• DK UTF-8 implementation has been changed  to strictly follow the
  standard to reject high and low surrogate pair  characters on
  decode. As per this change in specification ,if the java path
  has unicode supplementary characters   ParseUtil Decoder is
  treating these  characters as malformed characters and resulting
  in   java.lang.IllegalArgumentException.
  

Problem conclusion

• ParseUtil.decode  has been updated to handle unicode
  supplementary  characters.
  .
  This APAR will be fixed in the following Java Releases:
     8    SR3 FP22  (8.0.3.22)
  .
  Contact your IBM Product's Service Team for these Service
  Refreshes and Fix Packs.
  For those running stand-alone, information about the available
  Service Refreshes and Fix Packs can be found at:
             https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  JAVA CLASS LIBS

• Fixed component ID

  620700130

Applicable component levels

• R800 PSY

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