RE: Newbie questions: 1) Surrogates in WinXP? 2) Unicode in PostScript?

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> > In the .Net Framework, the string class (System
> > namespace) and the System.Globalization and System.Text
> > namespaces *are* designed to be aware of supplementary plane
> > characters.

> IMHO, that's a bit misleading. The String class itself does not appear
to
> be
> aware of SMP characters. It clearly uses UTF-16

I think that's clearly documented, isn't it.

>, and the length it reports
> is the number of code units, not the number of characters or graphemes
in
> the string.

True; that is documented.

Peter Constable

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