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Re: Java/Unicode brain damage

• From: Duane Nickull <duane@x...>
• To: James Clark <jjc@j...>
• Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 05:54:37 -0700

James Clark wrote:


> doesn't work too well once you have letters outside the BMP. The JDK 
> ought to have a class representing a Unicode character (scalar value).
> 
> Unfortunately .NET (System.Char) has the same problem.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Is anyone aware of Sun or MS working on classes to rectify this?

BTW - there is a bit of reading on this subject at:

http://www.ingrid.org/java/i18n/utf-16/

Duane Nickull
XML Global Technologies, Inc.

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