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.

Figure 9-63. java.io.UTFDataFormatException

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