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Re: GCJ manual changed
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: Nic Ferrier <nferrier at tapsellferrier dot co dot uk>, <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:35:11 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: GCJ manual changed
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Per Bothner wrote:
> Java does not use UTF-8, but something similar. The differences are
> that '\u0' is encoded using two bytes, and that code points about 2^16
> are encoding by individually encoding each surrogate pairs. (Java
> does not handle code points above 2^16 well in any case.)
Is there a proper name for this, e.g. UTF-JAVA? (DUTR#26 defines CESU-8
which encodes surrogate pairs like you describe but doesn't seem to have a
special encoding of '\u0'.)
Where these docs refer to UTF-8, do they mean UTF-8, or this variant?
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk