If I understand correctly, UTF-32 can handle every character in the universe. So can UTF-16, through the use of surrogate pairs. So is there any good reason to use UTF-32 instead of UTF-16? ...
I'm dealing with code that does various IO operations with files, and I want to make it able to deal with international filenames. I'm working on a Mac with Java 1.5, and if a filename contains Unicode characters that require surrogates, the JVM can't seem to locate the file. For example, my test file is: "草鷗外.gif" which gets broken int...