Re: Java/Unicode brain damage

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/doc/com/ibm/text/UCharacter.html

Looks relevant ... takes that "char is int" approach I mentioned
a while back.  (And I think it's also appropriate to mention the
API now visible as org.apache.crimson.util.XmlChars, which
has a bunch of static XML-oriented methods ... hasn't been taught
about blueberry yet, natch!)

- Dave



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Brennan" <Michael_Brennan@allegis.com>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: RE: Java/Unicode brain damage


> I don't fully understand the issues, here, (I guess I have some studying to
> do) but I'd be interested in hearing from the experts on this regarding
> IBM's ICU4J (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/). Does this deal better with
> these issues then the standard Java classes? Does the UTF16 class help with
> these issues? I notice references to "surrogates" in the API, so it seems
> like it has support for surrogate pairs, but I'm not saavy enough with
> Unicode issues to make a judgement, here.
> 
>