Re: Multi-byte locales

[Stephen Crawley]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> > > > > > "Florian" == Florian Weimer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Florian> On a related note, is it possible to access the command line
> Florian> as an array of byte arrays?
>
> Nope.
To elaborate.  As far as I know, none of Sun's Java implementations since
(at least) JDK 1.1 have offered the ability to get at the command line 
args as
bytes.  I would imagine that Sun's view would be that 1) this is unnecessary
and, 2) it may not be implementable on some platforms. 

IMO, it would be a bad idea to add such functionality to Classpath (as GNU
extensions to Java), or to individual Java VM's (as VM specific extensions
to Java).  The reasons are 1) and 2) above, AND the fact that any 
significant
"unofficial" extensions to the Java platform will tend to lead to problems
in porting Java applications across Java platforms, and hence to 
platform lock-in.

-- Steve