[Frank Wierzbicki <fwierzbicki@gm...>]

> I think this is basically how Sun added
> support for surrogates to Java 5.  Everywhere they take a character
> sequence they check for surrogates in the chars and operate on them
> accordingly.
Would this problem solve itself on Java 5?  In other words, would len
return the correct thing in Java 5 because java.lang.String returns
the right thing, etc.?  If that is the case, I'd rather leave direct
support out for now.

-Frank