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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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