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Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3

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• Subject: Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:42:19 -0500
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At 1:29 PM -0500 1/10/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote:


>Surrogate pairs are very tricky critters that seem to me to require 
>substantially more programming care than any other aspect of 
>Unicode, and I suspect that developers will be cursing them for a 
>long time to come.
>

You're only having trouble because Java's char type is brain-damaged 
in that a Java char actually represents a UTF-16 code point rather 
than a Unicode character. If Java's char type were four bytes instead 
of two, or an object instead of a primitive type, none of this would 
be bothering you. Surrogate pairs are one of the things a good class 
library should hide from you.

It could be worse, though. You could be using C, and trying to decode 
UTF-8. :-)
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