Am 14.10.2011 10:47, schrieb Ulf Zibis: > My new guess for the reason: > The unfolding of the bytes to int to serve the isNotContinuation / isMalformedxx methods. > So those methods should be coded in byte logic too. + use the "bx <= (byte)abc" logic instead "shift" or "(bx & abc) != def". -Ulf