Utf8Safe
A set of low-level, high-performance static utility methods related to the UTF-8 character encoding. This class has no dependencies outside of the core JDK libraries.
There are several variants of UTF-8. The one implemented by this class is the restricted definition of UTF-8 introduced in Unicode 3.1, which mandates the rejection of "overlong" byte sequences as well as rejection of 3-byte surrogate codepoint byte sequences. Note that the UTF-8 decoder included in Oracle's JDK has been modified to also reject "overlong" byte sequences, but (as of 2011) still accepts 3-byte surrogate codepoint byte sequences.
The byte sequences considered valid by this class are exactly those that can be roundtrip converted to Strings and back to bytes using the UTF-8 charset, without loss:
Arrays.equals(bytes, new String(bytes, Internal.UTF_8).getBytes(Internal.UTF_8))
See the Unicode Standard, Table 3-6. UTF-8 Bit Distribution, Table 3-7. Well Formed UTF-8 Byte Sequences.
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