diff --git a/icu4j/main/classes/charset/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetCompoundText.java b/icu4j/main/classes/charset/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetCompoundText.java
index 5e33e5dd4dd..0a54addacc5 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/classes/charset/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetCompoundText.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/classes/charset/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetCompoundText.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  *******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (C) 2010-2011, International Business Machines Corporation and         *
+ * Copyright (C) 2010-2012, International Business Machines Corporation and         *
  * others. All Rights Reserved.                                                *
  *******************************************************************************
  */
@@ -535,6 +535,9 @@ class CharsetCompoundText extends CharsetICU {
                         }
                         if (tmpState < 0) {
                             err = CoderResult.malformedForLength(1);
+                            if (this.toULength == 0) {
+                                source.get(); /* skip over the 0x1b byte */
+                            }
                             break;
                         }
                         
diff --git a/icu4j/main/shared/data/testdata.jar b/icu4j/main/shared/data/testdata.jar
index 003e5aa6f3a..9c26e1693fe 100755
--- a/icu4j/main/shared/data/testdata.jar
+++ b/icu4j/main/shared/data/testdata.jar
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:b725498307fbdcaba54c87a108be02c1c1913756af500246112513f32b9901d3
-size 719229
+oid sha256:9189e830f39d6cfb36008f3d389e784a3f0fa211ddaf01d6f4503188a2c46d55
+size 719348