Re: How does GNU classpath implement char?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Shopov <address@hidden> writes:

Alexander> I was wondering - how does gnu classpath implement char
Alexander> (the primitive value).

In a technical sense, Classpath doesn't -- it just leaves the
low-level representation of char to the VM.

Alexander> So it seems to me that only BMP characters are
Alexander> representable in char. What should be done (in programming)
Alexander> in order to use characters outside BMP?

AIUI, 1.5 has a lot of library updates to allow for 'int' codepoints
that lie outside the 16 bit range of a java 'char'.  For the most part
we have not implemented these APIs yet.  They don't look intrinsically
hard, just voluminous...

Tom