Re: java and unicode

From: Jonathan Rosenne (rosenne@netvision.net.il)
Date: Tue Feb 03 1998 - 17:37:22 EST


At 06:52 03/02/98 -0800, Mark Davis wrote:
>> Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@netvision.net.il>
>> The Java specification does not include proper suopport for bidi, thus it
>> cannot claim to support Unicode.
>
>
>This statement is not quite accurate. To support Unicode, an implementation
>does not have to support every Unicode character--Java currently does not
>support Arabic or Hebrew.

Mark, you are of course correct, but then this isn't full support.

>However, work is underway to support both of them in Java 1.2.

As far as I was told this does not address the base direction issue.

Jonathan



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