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btilly
on Feb 8, 2011
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UTF-8 good, UTF-16 bad
Exactly. A Java char is not synonymous with a Unicode code point. But the majority of the time they are synonymous, older documentation claimed that they were the same, and this is the meme that many Java programmers (in my experience) have.
fedd
on Feb 8, 2011
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yes. i write my java-based
matrix
to be code-points aware so that no-one in Japan and China using it would face any problems.
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