Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

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.

public class UTFDataFormatException extends IOException { // Public Constructors public UTFDataFormatException ( ); public UTFDataFormatException (String s ); }