Message8081

The attached program reproduces the problem.  I paste its output. let us see what happens to the umlauts in the display.
Mind the difference between the two lines prefixed by java-hex:
the first reveals the error: the java String has two characters for the german o-umlaut, obtained by padding each of the two bytes from its utf-8-sequence with a zero byte.


Executing:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from org.python.core import codecs
import Issue2073Main
codecs.setDefaultEncoding('utf-8')
print 'schön'
print 'python-hex:', ':'.join(x.encode('hex') for x in 'schön')
Issue2073Main.javaPrint('schön')
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schön
python-hex: 73:63:68:c3:b6:6e
javaPrint: schön
java-hex: 73:63:68:c3:b6:6e
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expected output:
javaPrint: schön
java-hex: 73:63:68:f6:6e