Unicode surrogate programming with the Java language

Coding options and performance considerations

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Masahiko Maedera

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Since version 1.5, the Java™ language has provided APIs supporting Unicode supplementary characters that can't be represented by a single 16-bit char data type. This article discusses the features of these APIs, shows their correct usage, and evaluates their processing performance.

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