Re: Unicode Support in Java

From: Nelson H. F. Beebe (beebe@math.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 22 1996 - 14:24:15 EST


Several people have commented on the problem of displaying arbitrary
Unicode characters in Java programs.

From this very recent book,

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on p. 206, we find

        ... Windows 95 platforms provide partial support for Unicode,
        including a partial Unicode font (which omits the Han
        Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and others). Also note
        that the java.io.PrintStream class (of which System.out is an
        instance) discards the top 8 bits of 16-bit Unicode
        characters. Thus, at least in current implementations,
        "standard output" supports only ASCII and Latin-1 characters.
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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