long-delayed response on Java and Unicode

2011-01-20 Thread Tom Christiansen
Sherman, Thank you very, very much for your mail to me back on: From: Xueming Shen Date: Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:01 AM Subject: Re: Java and Unicode To: Tom Christiansen Cc: i18n-dev@openjdk.java.net It was quite some time, however, before I saw it. That's becau

Re: Java and Unicode

2010-12-11 Thread Xueming Shen
Hi Tom, Thanks for looking into the Unicode support issues in Java RegEx. Since you haven been working on Unicode in the past decade, I'm sure you understand that most of the issues you are pointing out here belongs to the "Extended Unicode Support: Level 2" as documented in UTS#18 Unicode Re

Re: Java and Unicode

2010-12-11 Thread Martijn Verburg
Hi all, Just to add a little background here :). I'm Martijn (I help run the London JUG FWIW) and I ran across an answer from Tom on StackOverflow about Unicode issues in Java - I quickly deleted my answer! It was one of _those_ answers which really impressed all of us Java developers on that th

Java and Unicode

2010-12-11 Thread Tom Christiansen
Good morning, I'm Tom Christiansen; some of you may know me from my work in the Perl Community. I'm here at the urging of Martijn Verburg, who thought that my recent discoveries should be heard by your group. I've been professionally programming for more than 25 years now, mostly in C and Perl.