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Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sat Oct 11 13:14:51 PDT 2008


bearophile wrote:
> Benji Smith:
>> Java's design decision to always use two-byte characters is a
>> superior choice,<
> 
> It's a design error caused by the early adoption of unicode by Java,
> because unicode needs 4 bytes. So it may lead to problems.

I agree. I find it odd that anyone finds Java's character choice 
superior now, when it's acknowledged it missed the mark somewhat 
dramatically (only a short time shy of UTF-32 adoption).

Andrei



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