[Scriptonite-dev] UTF-16 is supported under jdk 1.3

[Raif S. N. <ra...@fl...>]

i just had a look at the rt.jar included in jdk1.3rc2 and noticed the 
following classes:

sun.io.ByteToCharUTF16.class
sun.io.ByteToCharUTF8.class
sun.io.CharToByteUTF16.class
sun.io.CharToByteUTF8.class

furthermore, the similarpage i pointed to earlier (in the jdk 1.2.2 
documentation), in jdk 1.3 
(<file:///C|/jdk1.3/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html>) now lists UTF-16 as 
an encoding handled by the Java platform.


i guess now my previous question is now answered, provided:

a. the lexer class can be made to specifically use the utf-16 encoding 
(canonical name "UTF-16"), and
b. java jdk 1.3 is used.


does this make sense?


cheers;
rsn