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   Re: [xml-dev] XML 1.1 grinds to halt?

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At 7:42 AM -0700 4/29/03, Tim Bray wrote:

>Really?  I just looked at a recent set of Java docs, and it's pretty 
>clear that a Java char isn't really a character, it's a UTF-16 
>codepoint, and the semantics of String are wrong for non-BMP 
>characters, and that the attempt at UTF-8 support remains pretty 
>laughably nonstandard and wrong.  I'd be *delighted* to hear that 
>I'm looking at wrong/obsolete docs.  Pointers anyone? -Tim


Unfortunately, you're more than half right. The InputStreamReader and 
OutputStreamWriter classes do handle UTF-8 correctly. The readUTF and 
writeUTF methods in DataInputStream/DataOutputStream don't. This 
wouldn't be a problem if they were simply called 
readString/writeString instead. However, your comments about the char 
types are dead on.
-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA




 

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