gcj 3.0/unicode

Mon Jun 25 20:49:00 GMT 2001

> Maybe the problem is that we are using the 3.x Unicode, but the JDK is
> using the 2.x Unicode. Hmm. Is this lame of us? It seemed
> reasonable when I did it. And I seem to remember that when I used the
> 2.x tables I found errors in them. OTOH the online docs pretty clear
> say "Unicode 2.0" (something they didn't say before JDK 1.3, at least
> as far as I remember). Maybe we ought to downgrade. Comments?

>From http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/relnotes/features.html#i18n :
Unicode 3.0 Support
 Character handling in J2SE 1.4 is based on version 3.0 of the Unicode standard.
 This affects the Character and String classes in the java.lang package as well as the
 collation and bidirectional text analysis functionality in the java.text package.