From 84b75772152e4585ef1fd722f86ab994b6fce2ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Avik Sengupta <avik@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 06:20:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] PR 19634: Compiling error in jdk1.3

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@353082 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/UnicodeString.java | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/UnicodeString.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/UnicodeString.java
index 622cd792b1..ad97d25bfa 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/UnicodeString.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/UnicodeString.java
@@ -158,7 +158,15 @@ public class UnicodeString
                 field_3_string = new String(data, 3, getCharCount(), 
                                         StringUtil.getPreferredEncoding());
             } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                // Extract the message out of our encoding
+            	// error and then bubble a runtime exception.
+            	String errorMessage = e.getMessage();
+            	
+            	// Make sure the message isn't null
+            	if (errorMessage == null) {
+            		errorMessage = e.toString();
+           	}
+                throw new RuntimeException(errorMessage);
             }
         }
         else