Null-terminated Unicode strings in java.io on Windows

[Tim Bell]

Alan Bateman wrote (about GetStringChars):

> [...] is length+1 and zero terminated. There is a long-standing bug to clarify the JNI specification on this topic. I believe it should say that the returned array of Unicode characters is not required to be zero terminated and that one should use GetStringLength to determine the length.

Roman Kennke wrote:

> So this is indeed a bug, right? Do you think it makes sense to go out and fix it?

I'd start here:

   4616318 Spec for JNI's GetStringChars() is incomplete
   http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4616318

HTH - Tim