• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3
• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:37:31 -0800
• References: <4.2.0.58.20020110131719.012c5f00@p...><p04330108b8639049050c@[192.168.254.4]>

>    Surrogate pairs are one of the things a good class 
> library should hide from you.

If you always work in terms of strings or character arrays
(or StringBuffer) they ARE hidden ... just like the other
"multi-byte" character cases, like combining characters.

The problem is in developer assumptions that characters
are always a Java "char".  That's true in enough cases
that it causes problems, since beginners rarely learn that
it's not always true, but IMO that's just a teaching problem.

- Dave

• References:
  • ANN: Gorille 0.3
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>

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