Java 8 UTF-8 encoding issue (java bug?)

Question

There is an inconsistency when creating a String with UTF-8 encoding.

Run this code:

public static void encodingIssue() throws IOException {
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Answer 1

That is a surrogate, right? I'm not a Unicode expert, but I don't think it has meaning by itself. Java 8 changed to support Unicode 6.2. Maybe it's stricter about this. 65533 is the standard 0xFFFD replacement character, which means, "not representable". Is there a real case where you need to interpret this as a string? because it seems like Unicode is saying that doesn't make sense as a character anymore.