12.3 Possible Problems

Beware of Bugs: This Java API needs a lot more testing, especially with "exotic" character sets. While it works for me, it may not work for you.

Encoding of your Java sources: If you are using non-ASCII characters in your Java source code, make sure javac compiles your programs with the correct encoding. If necessary specify the encoding using the -encoding parameter.

Java Unicode handling: Java 1.4 only handles 16-bit Unicode code points (i.e. characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane), this implementation therefore ignores all references to so-called Supplementary Characters (U+10000 to U+10FFFF). Starting from Java 1.5, these characters will also be supported by Java, but this will require changes to this library. See also the next section.

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