Summary

Support "Implementation Level 2" of the GB18030-2022 standard by including the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E Unicode block

Problem

In order for middleware applications to support "Implementation Level 2" of the GB18030-2022 standard, Java SE has to support the level.

Solution

"Implementation Level 2" requires to support characters on 通用规范汉字表 (Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzìbiǎo; aka TGH 2013), which lists 8,105 ideographs. Of those characters (code points), additional 108 characters from the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E block of Unicode 8.0 need to be allowed in Java SE 8 (with the fix to JDK-8301400). Although the required characters are 108, it would be beneficial to include the entire Extension E block from the implementation and future-proof (could be required more from this block) point of view.

Specification

Apply the following diff to the class description of java.lang.Character class:

@@ -55,9 +55,10 @@
  * implementation of class {@code Character} to use the Currency Symbols
  * block from version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard. Second, the Java SE 8 Platform
  * allows an implementation of class {@code Character} to use the code points
  * in the range of {@code U+9FCD} to {@code U+9FEF} from version 11.0 of the
- * Unicode Standard, in order for the class to allow the "Implementation
- * Level 1" of the Chinese GB18030-2022 standard. Third, the Java SE 8 Platform
+ * Unicode Standard and in the {@code CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E} block
+ * from version 8.0 of the Unicode Standard, in order for the class to allow the
+ * "Implementation Level 2" of the Chinese GB18030-2022 standard.
+ * Third, the Java SE 8 Platform
  * allows an implementation of class {@code Character} to use the Japanese Era
  * code point, {@code U+32FF}, from the Unicode Standard version 12.1.
  * Consequently, the

Add the following new field to java.lang.Character.UnicodeBlock class:

@@ -2573,6 +2574,17 @@ 
                              "ARABIC MATHEMATICAL ALPHABETIC SYMBOLS",
                              "ARABICMATHEMATICALALPHABETICSYMBOLS");

+        /**
+         * Constant for the "CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E" Unicode
+         * character block.
+         * @apiNote This field is defined in Java SE 8 Maintenance Release 5.
+         * @since 1.8
+         */
+        public static final UnicodeBlock CJK_UNIFIED_IDEOGRAPHS_EXTENSION_E