Tom,
Yes, I would need some time to digest all the technical details, though
I believe I've
had a good understanding of most issues you raised.
Sure, I will keep you updated for the related RFEs I will submit based
on your research.
The CR# so far I have are
7014645: Support Perl style Unicode hex notation \x{...}
7014633: Support loose matching forboth abbreviated and longer names of Unicode
priperty
7014640: Add meta character for line ending '\R'
It might take a couple days(?) for these CR# to show up on the website.
Still need some time to scope/categorize those Unicode properties
support issues, will
post/send you the CR# when I have them and we can then discuss what we
can do to
address those issues going forward.
People on this mailing list are supposed to be interested in Java
i18n/Unicode support, so
I'm sure any opinion/suggestion regarding the Unicode support in Java
are welcome and
appreciated.
Again, thanks for spending so much time on these long writings, it
definitely helps
and appreciated.
-Sherman
On 01/25/2011 11:42 AM, Tom Christiansen wrote:
That concludes my discoveries, analysis, and remediations related
to j.u.r.Pattern's conformance with tr18's Level 1 requirements.
I would be interested in guidance toward how I can best help you
now that all that is done.
Would you all like some time to absorb and digest this set of
writings from me? I realize some have been rather detailed.
Or would you like me to continue with other areas I have observed
where I feel Java could stand some improvement in how it deals with
Unicode? These are not regular expression matters, but other ones.
Sherman, if you do end up generating any RFEs out of all this, I
would very much appreciate it if you could please tell me their
IDs so that I might track them for myself in the coming years.
I still worry that I have caused offence through ignorant heavy-
handedness or a mischosen turn of phrase. Please have patience
with me if I have, because I promise that no offence was intended.
I really want only to help make the Java platform a better one
for everyone.
Thank you very very much for listening to me.
--tom
