• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:47:27 -0500
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At 3:15 PM -0500 1/10/02, Mike Champion wrote:


>Does anyone know what Sun's plans to remedy (or ignore) this might
>be?  What about the Microsoft common runtime thingie, does it support
>32-bit characters?
>


Yes. This issue was seriously considered between Java 1.3 and 1.4, at 
which point Sun made the decision that a Java char was equal to a 
UTF-16 code point rather than a Unicode character. This is unlikely 
to be revisited in the future.
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