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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?
Date	2011-02-04 01:34 -0500
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On 02/04/2011 12:59 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Why was it decreed in the language spec that characters beyond U+FFFF are
> not allowed in character literals, when they are allowed everywhere else (in
> string literals, in the program text, in character and string values etc)?

Because a 'char' type holds only 16 bits.

-- 
Lew
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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-04 01:34 -0500

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