you are correct, it was my misunderstanding of the problem - now that
I've read more than I ever wanted to know about UCS-2, UTF-16 and
modified UTF-8, I'm more upto speed.
Thanks for the patience.
On Sep 11, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Donovan Jimenez
<[email protected]> wrote:
Is it possible (and would it even help) to normalize all strings
with
regards to surrogate pairs at indexing time instead?
Already done, in a way... there's only one way to represent a
character outside the BMP in UTF-16 (which is the in-memory encoding
used by Java String). Unless I misunderstood what you meant by
normalization.
-Yonik
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