From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Tromey To: Artur Biesiadowski Cc: mauve Subject: Re: Character Test Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:45:00 -0000 Message-id: <87r9sxqxp6.fsf@cygnus.com> In-reply-to: Artur Biesiadowski's message of Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:53:27 +0100 References: <36957A24.B7BB761F@urbanophile.com> <877luxy5xw.fsf@cygnus.com> <36975F57.881E9D4F@pg.gda.pl> X-SW-Source: 1999-01/msg00018.html >>>>> "Artur" == Artur Biesiadowski writes: >> Some care is required here. JDK conformance actually depends on >> using the correct version of the table. For JDK 1.0, I believe a >> very old Unicode data table was used. Artur> I'll say NO. JDK isn't god's implementation. We are interested Artur> in conformance to JLS and to common sense, only then taking JDK Artur> in account. As far as I know, there is no JLS corresponding to JDK 1.2. Instead we must rely on the JDK 1.2 docs from Sun. If we just look at JLS then we have to use the tables specified there -- probably not what you intend. If you mean we should rely on documentation and not implementations, then I agree. Sun's implementation does have bugs with respect to its documentation (and there are cases where the docs are clearly right). Tom