Name: bb33257 Date: 10/26/99


The JDK will need to support surrogates in the near future to
support CJK markets. The class java.lang.Character currently
provides a getType method that can be used for to find Unicode
type information for a character. However, the current API does
not support the notion of "surrogates" as defined in the Unicode
2.0 standard. Surrogates use two Unicode values from a specified
range to represent one logical character. We need to extend our
getType API to return type information for surrogate characters
as well as normal ones. We also need to add convenience methods
and extend the type API. Details provided on request.
(Review ID: 97051)

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