here is a great link for this topic: http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/supplementaries_iuc21.ppt
so you see it wouldn't be that invasive, and of course you can still use char[], with some minor modifications to how you process text in certain places. its the parameters that take single char, etc that would potentially be a compat issue. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Robert Muir<rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > in general most stuff will be ok (code just doesnt mess with the > surrogate pairs) > > simple example: things like lowercase filter are not, and > lowercasetokenizer, well, can't fix that since its super > chartokenizer, works on char. > > i hope this doesnt sound bad, but in general the transition is simple > for most apps, because they work with String. Lucene works with char a > lot, so its a bigger challenge, but I appreciate the good performance > :) > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Michael > McCandless<luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Robert Muir<rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> 3.0 will then be a mechanical release: "simply" remove all deprecated >>>> APIs, fix all core, contrib, tests to not use those APIs, release, and >>>> immediately begin accepting 1.5 patches. >>>> >>> >>> personally, I wonder if anyone but me is interested in correcting the >>> issue that unicode character no longer fits in java 'char' in java 1.5 >>> :) >>> >>> maybe I am the only one, but i still think its correctness issue..., >>> and will require changing some apis, even if its just char->int >> >> I think this is important. >> >> But it's a big change right? EG would we need to change tokens to be >> int not char based? >> >> Also, can't this happen after 3.0? >> >> Mike >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > > > > -- > Robert Muir > rcm...@gmail.com > -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
