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- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: "xml-dev@xml.org" <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:08:50 -0500
Mike Brown wrote:
> I have a question, though. I have seen a reference somewhere saying that
> Java characters and strings are UCS-2 encoded, and I saw a reference
> somewhere else saying they are UTF-16 encoded. Which is it?
Java pretends surrogates don't exist, basically, and will spit out
bad UTF-8 for a surrogate pair. So you can call it UCS-2, if you
want, but it's really just a broken implementation.
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