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>> You probably know this, but Java's use of Unicode varies from >> release to release. So make sure to mark the tests appropriately >> ... Artur> Yes, I know, but I'm not sure if it is java standard or just Artur> sun's choice. That's an interesting point which is more general than just the Character class. I guess it's because the documentation isn't very good that this confusion arises. Artur> JDK x.y uses unicode standard z. When new unicode update Artur> appears, new JDK uses it (1.2 vs euro for example). But I don't Artur> think that java standard specify which unicode you should use - Artur> and if it specify, it has to be set, not vary from version to Artur> version. Yeah. However, JDK 1.0 explicitly uses Unicode 1.1.5 (this info is in the Java Language Spec book). So your tests should probably tagged JDK1.1. Artur> I'm goping to use latest possible unicode data. If some lib do Artur> not implement it, then lib is out of date. Only thing that I Artur> think could be done is to change some errors into warnings - Artur> for example "'0xabcd' is defined since unicode z.y.z" I guess this would be nice if it isn't too hard to do. I'm not really overly concerned with it. We generate the data for Character directly from the Unicode data tables. For any given release of our package, we'll probably similarly fix a version of the Mauve test suite. So when a new Unicode is released, we can just update them both at the same time. I'd imagine this is the case for all implementors. Anybody do something different? Tom