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>The nasty fact is that >I suspect many Java application programmers will end up >simply blowing off non-BMP text either through ignorance >or based on a decision that it's not cost-effective. It depends what they want to do with it. Won't they just end up passing it through as pairs of surrogates? Indeed, I thought that was the argument for UTF-16 all along; as someone not a million miles from this discussion put it: >The processor could still pass UTF-16 to the application >as the 2 16-bit quantities d800, dc00, and in fact I suspect that >UTF-16 is probably the way to go for the interface of a generic >processor, since it would not require that the app be prepared >to handle 4-byte characters. -- Richard
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