From: Curt Sampson <cjs@...>
Date: 2002-08-04T17:43:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Deprecation and Unicode

On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Danny van Bruggen wrote:

> There's a nice article at
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/07/31/java3.html
> that discusses improvements for Java.

I'd be careful with this article; it's got errors in it. I'm not going
to bother to do a full analysis, but here's an example of a blatent one:

    Encodings should be identified with IANA-registered names like
    ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16 instead of Java class names like 8859_1
    and UTF16.

Well, this is already the case and has been for a long time; you can see
this in the 1.3 JDK documenatation at

    http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html

> 7: According to this point, Unicode has -much- more characters than 65536,
> so it needs more than two bytes. I haven't seen that mentioned here
> before.

Look back through the archives for my posts over the past few days;
it's been dicussed quite heavily.

cjs
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