Re: Is anything easier to do in java than in lisp?

From: Antonio Menezes Leitao (Antonio.Leitao_at_evaluator.pt)
Date: 05/04/04


Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 21:15:53 +0100

On Tue, 04 May 2004 17:48:33 +0000, Antony Sequeira wrote:

>> Antonio Leitao.
> Hi, this is my first post to cll, never mustered enough courage to ask
> any question, so I'll start with a reply.

Welcome to comp.lang.lisp.

> Please see
> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/Supplementary/
> What I understand from the above is -
> Java chars are now just like C chars, only they are fixed to 16 bit
> width, they are not unicode chars.

Java is a moving target. The article you mentioned is from May 2004!

Anyway, the idea I got from the proposed changes is that they want to
extend the already existent (vast) support in Java for Unicode in order to
include the "Supplementary Characters" of Unicode.

Thanks for the info,

Antonio Leitao



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Is anything easier to do in java than in lisp?
    ... > Java chars are now just like C chars, only they are fixed to 16 bit ... they are not unicode chars. ... using the first 128 characters as-is and the last 128 characters only ... the claim that a java character is a Unicode character is not ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)
  • Re: Is anything easier to do in java than in lisp?
    ... > Java chars are now just like C chars, only they are fixed to 16 bit ... they are not unicode chars. ... using the first 128 characters as-is and the last 128 characters only ... the claim that a java character is a Unicode character is not ...
    (comp.lang.java)
  • Re: Help me!! Why java is so popular
    ... You are basically arguing that "Java is slow because it is slow". ... > Also, a JVM can pay attention to usage, provide caching, adapt at run ... I have no use for unicode in my ...
    (comp.lang.java.programmer)
  • Re: Schnittstelle - Winsock, String, Unicode
    ... Java arbeitet mit Big Endian Unicode, ... Zeichen aus dem 8bit ziel-Zeichensatz enthält, ... Unicode-Strings unterstützt werden, ...
    (microsoft.public.de.vb)
  • Re: CFile ops using char or TCHAR
    ... >just noticed that my file handling class is working chars not TCHARs. ... >Do I need to be working in wide chars for CFile operations, ... you need to use the type of characters you want ... CE is heavily biased towards UNICODE. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded.vc)