Galen Boyer wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:22:49 +0100, Jeremy <jeremy0505_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So we feel as though we are caught between a rock and a hard place -
>>> cananyone suggest a setting taht might support all our needs (sure I
>>> haven't defined ALL out needs! - of course I mean something that
>>> supports western european accented characters as well as the Euro
>>> symbol)?
>> I guess you need to convert completely to utf8. Java is utf8 anyway,
>
> No, java is UCS2.
UTF16, rather; UCS2 is not a current format, as Unicode
doesn't exist solely within the BMP (basic multilingual
plane), but Java char was fixed at 16 bits a long time
ago, and Java (just like Windows) not has to have kludges
to fully support the Unicode character set.
Received on Sat Jun 24 2006 - 10:29:02 CDT
