[Fwd]: Supplementary characters in the Java(TM) platform

----- Forwarded message from Norbert Lindenberg <Norbert.Lindenberg-UdXhSnd/[email protected]> -----

 > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:07:15 -0800
 > From: Norbert Lindenberg <Norbert.Lindenberg-UdXhSnd/[email protected]>
 > Subject: Supplementary characters in the Java(TM) platform
 > To: [email protected]
 > Cc: Norbert Lindenberg <Norbert.Lindenberg-UdXhSnd/[email protected]>
 > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612)
 > 
 > I know a number of you are curious about how the Java platform will 
 > support the supplementary characters of the Unicode standard. The JSR 
 > 204 expert group, consisting of experts of ten companies, has today 
 > published the Public Review Draft of its specification at:
 >     http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr204/index.html
 > 
 > Highlights:
 > - Low-level APIs use the primitive type int to represent Unicode code 
 > points.
 > - Higher-level APIs rely on char sequences, such as String and char[], 
 > which are interpreted as UTF-16 sequences.
 > - There are methods to easily convert between various char and code 
 > point based representations.
 > - Supplementary characters are allowed in Java programming language 
 > identifiers.
 > 
 > Almost all of the specified functionality is implemented in the beta 
 > release of J2SE 1.5, which is available at:
 >     http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/index.jsp
 > 
 > If you have comments, please send them to the official feedback address:
 >     [email protected]
 > 
 > You can hear more about the supplementary character support in the J2SE 
 > platform in session B6 of the upcoming Unicode conference:
 >     http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25/a338.html
 > 
 > Sorry if you see this message twice - my posting yesterday made it into 
 > the digest, but not to all subscribers or into the archive.
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > Norbert
 > 
 > 

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