An
IOException that signals that a malformed
UTF-8 string has been encountered by a
class that implements the DataInput interface.
UTF-8 is an ASCII-compatible transformation format for Unicode
characters that is often used to store and transmit Unicode text.
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public class UTFDataFormatException extends IOException {
// Public Constructors
public UTFDataFormatException( );
public UTFDataFormatException(String s);
}