Increaed support for Unicode in Java API (original) (raw)

Pravin Jain pravin at zensoftech.co.in
Thu Oct 1 13:14:54 UTC 2009

Hello all, Currently, the JDK API has a very limited support for the Unicode properties. Mostly what is available is from the Character class's methods like isDigit, getNumericValue, getCategory, etc. These properties are supported by building the CharacterData classes from the UnicodeData.txt files. There are around 89 properties mentioned in the Unicode database. The UCD contains information about all the properties. I wish to start working to build support for these properties, starting with giving priority to Normative properties. I have already built a class from the information available from the UCD.html file to contain the meta-information related to the various Properties. I feel we could start by creating a separate package may be something like java.lang.unicode which would have the required classes for supporting information about the unicode properties. I have also tested a code which could generate enums for the Properties having values of Enumeration type as mentioned in the UCD.html. Any one may please let me know as to how I can start contributing for this. Thanks and regards. Pravin Jain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/attachments/20091001/7232fbe7/attachment.html>

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