On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:32:43AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:42:18PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > I don't know how Java and Python handle Unicode. > Java has always been 100% Unicode from the ground up; it's in the spec. > The fundamental char type is a 16-bit value, you can use any "letterlike"
My understanding was that Unicode has now escaped the base plane (or whatever it's called) and now has started using code points >65536. How does Java cope with this? Nicholas Clark