Let me join the chorus of agreement with Brian here. The most popular use case will forever be ASCII line of non-letter symbols.
Another way to think about codepoints is as conversion between UTF-32 and UTF-16, or as general support for text in UTF-32 format, which is not supported well within the JDK (and we probably should not do too much work in this direction). On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 1:50 AM, Remi Forax <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> wrote: > ----- Mail original ----- > > De: "Brian Goetz" <brian.go...@oracle.com> > > > I really can’t see the value of more than one method. If we need other > forms > > they should be for constructing strings not repeating strings. > > > > Sent from my MacBook Wheel > > I fully agree. > > Rémi