#
# Copyright (c) 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
#
getBuffer handling is tracked upstream as
https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-12378

--- icu/source/common/unistr.cpp.orig
+++ icu/source/common/unistr.cpp
@@ -666,6 +666,9 @@
         return result;
     }
     const char16_t *array = getBuffer();
+    if (array == nullptr) {
+        return result;
+    }
     int32_t len = length();
     int32_t prev = 0;
     for (int32_t i=0;;) {