Re: [xml-dev] ANN: Gorille 0.3

[Mike Champion <mc@xegesis.org>]

1/10/2002 1:42:19 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

>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. 

Does anyone know what Sun's plans to remedy (or ignore) this might
be?  What about the Microsoft common runtime thingie, does it support
32-bit characters?