Re: Java and Unicode

From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@pantheon.yale.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 12:36:16 EST


On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:

> In any case, I think that UTF-16 is the answer here.
>
> Many people try to compare this to DBCS, but it really is not the same
> thing.... understanding lead bytes and trail bytes in DBCS is *astoundingly*
> more complicated than handling surrogate pairs.

Well, it depends on what multibyte encoding you're talking about. In case
of 'pure' EUC encodings (EUC-JP, EUC-KR, EUC-CN, EUC-TW) as opposed to
SJIS(Windows94?), Windows-949(UHC), Windows-950, WIndows-125x(JOHAB),
ISO-2022-JP(-2), ISO-2022-KR, ISO-2022-CN , it's not that hard (about
the same as UTF-16, I believe, especially in case of EUC-CN and EUC-KR)

Jungshik Shin



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