From: Norbert Lindenberg (Norbert.Lindenberg@Sun.COM)
Date: Fri Feb 27 2004 - 13:07:15 EST
I know a number of you are curious about how the Java platform will
support the supplementary characters of the Unicode standard. The JSR
204 expert group, consisting of experts of ten companies, has today
published the Public Review Draft of its specification at:
http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr204/index.html
Highlights:
- Low-level APIs use the primitive type int to represent Unicode code
points.
- Higher-level APIs rely on char sequences, such as String and char[],
which are interpreted as UTF-16 sequences.
- There are methods to easily convert between various char and code
point based representations.
- Supplementary characters are allowed in Java programming language
identifiers.
Almost all of the specified functionality is implemented in the beta
release of J2SE 1.5, which is available at:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/index.jsp
If you have comments, please send them to the official feedback address:
jsr-204-comments@jcp.org
You can hear more about the supplementary character support in the J2SE
platform in session B6 of the upcoming Unicode conference:
http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25/a338.html
Sorry if you see this message twice - my posting yesterday made it into
the digest, but not to all subscribers or into the archive.
Best regards,
Norbert
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