Sherman,
Thank you so much for going out of your way to get your message
to me, all despite my broken mailer. Thanks to your help, I think
I have finally managed to wrestle it into working right. But that's
what I said last time, too, so we shall we.
> Introducing in the new perl style \x{...}
Sherman,
In part 1, I outlined my thinking of why having to make end-users think
about represenation issues in regexes goes against if not perhaps the law,
certainly to mind the spirit of UTS(tr)#18 when it says that a compliant
"the regular expression engine provides support for Unicode character
Sherman wrote:
> As of the Unicode support in j.l.Character class,
>> What I most dearly love to see Java would be brought fully up to date
>> so that its basic Character class supports whatever the current Unicode
>> release happens to be. Wouldn't that be great?
> Java language specification
Java does not meet the requirement of RL1.2. It provides only 3 of the 11
require properties; 4 it omits altogether, while 4 others it implements in
a fashion contrary to the standard. Java also neglects the strongly
recommended aspects of this section, which is quite a pity.
>From tr18:
RL
