Re: Java and Unicode

From: Juliusz Chroboczek (jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 15:18:39 EST


MS> In the case of Java, the equivalent course of action would be to
MS> stick with a 16-bit char as the base type for strings.

I believe that Java strings use UTF-8 internally. At any rate the
internal implementation is not exposed to applications -- note that
`length' is a method in class String (while it is a field in vector
classes).

                                        Juliusz



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