Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:09:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1296911399 4590 84.45.235.129 (5 Feb 2011 13:09:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:09:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26170 On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:54:06 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > And Arabic script was adopted by a whole lot of different languages > which had sounds that Arabic did not. So they had to make up their own > letters, most commonly by adding different numbers of dots to the > existing shapes. > Arabic Letters also have different glyphs depending on whether they are at the start, middle or end of a word or an isolated letter, though six letters only have isolated and end-of-word representations. Unicode supports this with a code point for each representation of each letter. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |