Hi Eric,
The offending character seems to be a #\newline character. From what I've understood from looking at DecodingReader.java, this may be a classpath bug rather than an ABCL bug.
Thanks for getting back about this. Could you confirm this with the Classpath project? If it's an ABCL bug afterall, I'd like to learn about it though.
Thanks for taking your time to report!
Bye,
Erik.