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Re: UCS-2, UTF-16, and Java (was RE: U+xxxx, U-xxxxxx, and the basics

• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: "xml-dev@x..." <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:08:50 -0500

Mike Brown wrote:

> I have a question, though. I have seen a reference somewhere saying that
> Java characters and strings are UCS-2 encoded, and I saw a reference
> somewhere else saying they are UTF-16 encoded. Which is it?

Java pretends surrogates don't exist, basically, and will spit out
bad UTF-8 for a surrogate pair.  So you can call it UCS-2, if you
want, but it's really just a broken implementation.

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