At 4:17 PM +0100 7/17/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:32:43AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:42:18PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> > I don't know how Java and Python handle Unicode.
>> Java has always been 100% Unicode from the ground up; it's in the spec.
>> The fundamental char type is a 16-bit value, you can use any "letterlike"
>
>My understanding was that Unicode has now escaped the base plane (or whatever
>it's called) and now has started using code points >65536. How does Java
>cope with this?
I thought Java used UTF-16. It's a variable-width encoding, so it
should be fine. (Though I bet a lot of folks will be rather surprised
when it happens...)
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