Re: [ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Bugs-3040720 ] Incorrect handling of Unicode outside BMP ("surrogates")

[Jarek C. <jar...@po...>]

Kazutoshi, thank you for the thorough analysis. I think I agree with all 
of it. But we need to have the names defined in a single place in 
javadoc. In one of the public classes. If you would like me to do a part 
of this naming job, let me know.

Old code needn't necessarily be changed or commented, I think it's too 
much fuss. But new methods and stuff that is touched anyway could use 
the precise naming, whenever possible.

Summarizing we should state to use the following terms:

code unit (alternatively "java char", simply referred as "char" in old code)
code point
glyph
user char
char or character is a misleading term, thus deprecated. Usually it 
means character as defined in Java, which we can't fight.

Jarek