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XML marshalling of surrogate pairs

Time:09-29

I have came across a strange behavior of marshaller when surrogate pairs are involved. Why JAXB marshaller adds unnecessary (and invalid) XML entity? When I try to marshall the following:

  • \uD83D\uDCB3, e.g. 55357 56499 code points

Mashaller outputs 128179 code point (that is valid and represents both surrogate pairs in XML) and unnecessary 56499 (which is not a valid XML entity and represents low part of pair). How can I configure marshaller to achieve valid XML entities in output, or do I need just upgrade libraries? I am using Java 8.

Sample reproducing code:

    String inputSurrogate = "\uD83D\uDCB3";
    JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Customer.class);

    Marshaller jaxbMarshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
    jaxbMarshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
    jaxbMarshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING, "UTF-8");
    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

    Customer customer = new Customer();
    customer.setText(inputSurrogate);
    jaxbMarshaller.marshal(customer, sw);
    String xmlString = sw.toString();

    System.out.println(xmlString);
    for (int i = 0; i < xmlString.length(); i  ) {
        int ch = xmlString.codePointAt(i);
        System.out.print(ch);
        System.out.print("|");
    }

Output (note the |128179|56499|, the 56499 is unnecessary and invalid to my understanding):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<customer>
    <text>           
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