Re: Java and Unicode

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

MS> In the case of Java, the equivalent course of action would be to
MS> stick with a 16-bit char as the base type for strings.

I believe that Java strings use UTF-8 internally.  At any rate the
internal implementation is not exposed to applications -- note that
`length' is a method in class String (while it is a field in vector
classes).

                                        Juliusz