From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:44:34 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT 1.5.0-rc2 compiler warning
Message-ID: <200701222144.34934.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7nvyic4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

måndag 22 januari 2007 02:13 skrev Junio C Hamano:
> I know.  Imported code.
>
> I do not think we can do much on a platform where wchar_t is too
> narrow and BMP only anyway.

What's wrong is the assumption that wchar_t corresponds to a complete unicode 
character. On windows, two wchar_t (code units) may me combined to encode a
unicode character outside of the BMP.

Without investigating further, I note that Java adds methods with an 'int' 
argument to the Character utility class to handle code points, vs the 
original 'char' that represents a code unit. (unlike C, an int is always 
32-bit in Java).

-- robin