Patrick Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the best way for a JVM to instantiate a String for a constant pool
> entry of type "CONSTANT_String"? I'm looking for the most straightforward
> approach that won't cause me a lot of grief down the road. There are a
> number of constructors for String; should I use one of those, or just use
> my inside knowledge of the String class to construct an instance manually?
>
> The closest thing to sanity I can think of is to convert the UTF8-encoded
> characters into a char array and then use the String(char[], length)
> constructor. AFAIK I would have to implement the conversion myself.
>
> Does this seem like the right approach?
I don't know if this matters, but your approach seems to ignore locale
encoding.
Brian
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