Re: Locales: An Analysis

Bart Schuller writes:
: On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 09:21:04AM -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
: > It should be noted that over in Java-land, UTF-16 is more or less the
: > native dialect, and UTF-8 is a royal pain in the butt to deal with.  Sigh.
: 
: I was just reading up on the Java Native Interface and there they don't
: talk about UTF-16, but only about their own version of UTF-8 (sigh).
: So it's not as bad as it seems when interfacing with C.
: 
: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/jni/spec/types.doc.html#16542

Indeed, JPL (Java Perl Lingo) uses JNI for communicating with Java.
Everything just naturally comes out in UTF-8.  More or less.

So to spin it towards UTF-8ism, we can see that even Java has hedged
its bets on whether UTF-8 will be the preferred interface.

(Actually, you can get at the UTF-16 through JNI as well, but of course
it looks like an array to C.  (Not that the UTF-8 doesn't :-))

Larry