> The Sun Java documentation sasy that char is a 16 bit positive value > that has the representation of a character in UTF-16 encoding.
As of Java 5.0 that is correct. Previously Java only supported the 16-bit Unicode standards. > So it seems to me that only BMP characters are representable in char. > What should be done (in programming) in order to use characters > outside BMP? UTF-16 allows for the encoding of all Unicode characters within 16-bit values. The values \u0000 to \uffff are encoded directly. The values above 0x00FFFF are encoded as "surrogate pairs" using two char values. There are methods within the Character class for working with surrogate pairs, and also methods that deal with Unicode code points (any 21-bit Unicode value) directly, by taking/returning int values. Classpath is not yet Java 5.0 compatible, but people are working on that. Cheers, David Holmes _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
