Re: characters set's problem

[Sascha Brawer]

Per Bothner <address@hidden> wrote on Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:32:23 -0800:

>> Nowadays, Java uses the full Unicode character set.
>
>But rather awkwardly and incompletely.  Is there a replacement for 
>java.lang.Character, which only handles 16-bit 'char' values?

It certainly would make sense to enhance java.lang.Character accordingly.
J2SE1.5 might provide this, but I did not want to look at the pre-release
code for checking. Here's an announcement, though:

>Unicode 3.1 Support
>
>32-bit surrogate character support will be carefully added to the
>platform so the Java "char" will still remain at 16 bits.

Quoted from: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
RoadMaps/J2SE_1.5/j2se_1_5.html

Best regards,

-- Sascha

Sascha Brawer, address@hidden, http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/