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Subject:    Re: ICU4J proposal to add hasMoreCodePointThan APIs to  com.ibm.icu.text.UTF16
From:       "syn wee" <syn.wee.quek () jtcsv ! com>
Date:       2002-10-25 0:57:01
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Alan,

You are right.
The APIs will be named hasMoreCodePointsThan(..)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Liu" <alan.liu@jtcsv.com>
To: "syn wee" <syn.wee.quek@jtcsv.com>; <icu@oss.software.ibm.com>;
<icu4j-support@oss.software.ibm.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: ICU4J proposal to add hasMoreCodePointThan APIs to
com.ibm.icu.text.UTF16


> I think it reads better as "code points":
>                                       ^
>  hasMoreCodePointsThan()
>
>
> At 05:10 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, syn wee wrote:
> >ICU4J proposal to add hasMoreCodePointThan APIs to
com.ibm.icu.text.UTF16.
> >Please respond with comments by Nov 7th 2002.
> >
> >3 APIs will be added to the class UTF16
> >
> >public static boolean hasMoreCodePointThan(java.lang.String source,
> >                                           int number)
> >public static boolean hasMoreCodePointThan(java.lang.StringBuffer source,
> >                                           int number)
> >public static boolean hasMoreCodePointThan(char[] source,
> >                                           int start,
> >                                           int limit,
> >                                           int number)
> >
> >All 3 APIs check if the source argument contains more Unicode code points
> >than a certain number. This is more efficient than counting all code
points
> >in the entire source argument and comparing that number with a threshold.
> >This function may not need to scan the source at all, if the length for
> >String and StringBuffer argument, or the argument start and limit for
char[]
> >arguments, is within a certain range. These APIs never needs to count
more
> >than 'number + 1' code points. Logically equivalent to
> >(countCodePoint(source, start, limit) > number). A Unicode code point may
> >occupy either one or two code units.
> >
> >Parameters description:
> >source - UTF-16 chars source, either a String, StringBuffer or a char[]
> >start - offset to substring in the source array for analyzing (only if
> >source is  a char[])
> >limit - offset to substring in the source array for analyzing (only if
> >source is  a char[])
> >number - The number of code points in the string is compared against the
> >'number'
> >                 parameter.
> >Returns:
> >boolean value for whether the source contains more Unicode code points
than
> >'number'
> >
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