At 3:15 PM -0500 1/10/02, Mike Champion wrote:
>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?
>
Yes. This issue was seriously considered between Java 1.3 and 1.4, at
which point Sun made the decision that a Java char was equal to a
UTF-16 code point rather than a Unicode character. This is unlikely
to be revisited in the future.
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