Replace ICU4J UCharacter methods with standard Java Character class#118
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ICU4J 75.1 removed the char-taking overloads of UCharacter methods: - isHighSurrogate(char) — removed (only isHighSurrogate(int) remains) - isLowSurrogate(char) — removed (only isLowSurrogate(int) remains) - getCodePoint(char, char) — removed (only getCodePoint(int, int) remains) When code compiled against an older ICU4J (which had those methods) runs with ICU4J 75.1, it throws NoSuchMethodError — because the bytecode contains direct references to the removed method signatures. Note: Code compiled against ICU4J 75.1 happens to work because Java’s implicit widening conversion (char → int) binds to the int versions at compile time. But that doesn’t help users of pre-compiled artifacts. This change replaces all uses of those ICU4J methods with equivalent methods from Java’s standard Character class (available since Java 5): - UCharacter.isHighSurrogate(c) → Character.isHighSurrogate(c) - UCharacter.isLowSurrogate(c) → Character.isLowSurrogate(c) - UCharacter.getCodePoint(c1, c2) → Character.toCodePoint(c1, c2)
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ICU4J 75.1 removed the char-taking overloads of UCharacter methods:
When code compiled against an older ICU4J (which had those methods) runs with ICU4J 75.1, it throws NoSuchMethodError — because the bytecode contains direct references to the removed method signatures.
Note: Code compiled against ICU4J 75.1 happens to work because Java’s implicit widening conversion (char → int) binds to the int versions at compile time. But that doesn’t help users of pre-compiled artifacts.
This change replaces all uses of those ICU4J methods with equivalent methods from Java’s standard Character class (available since Java 5):