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Tim Bray responding to a question of mine: > >Do folk prefer to deal with characters in the astral planes > >as surrogate pairs (native representation in String and in > >char arrays), or as decoded "int" values? Both? Is some > >other representation preferred? > > Seems like the smart thing is to leave it in a String > for now, in the hope that the rest of the Java apparatus > will get non-BMP-savvy in the course of time, and you'll > be able to send these things to renderers and other > string-processing-functions and the Right Thing Will > Happen. Except that changes the way programs working with individual "character" values will work: they'll have to convert to array-ish (string, char[]) representations. Plus, learn that some characters consume multiple indices ... that starts to touch on display issues, like combining characters, with similar problems. > I'm wondering if there is a need for some Blueberry-aware > SAX2 utility/support interfaces, but nothing comes to mind. Well, I've always thought a class with static methods to support various name tests would be valuable, even in the absense of blueberry issues. The basics are just whether a character can be the first or Nth character of an XML 1.0 name, ignoring namespace issues. Then there would be "what version of XML" issues. - Dave
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