Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
While reading the source code of SortableIntField, I noticed that this class avoids “UCS-16 surrogates” when converting an integer to a String (see method int int2sortableStr(int, char[], int) of NumberUtils.java).
What issue would these characters raise?
The comments of the given code are confusing, actually there is a mistake, Wikipedia:
Your question #1: Why does SortableIntField avoid UCS-16 surrogates?
To decrease running time and to save space by avoiding endiness, for instance.
Your question #2: What issue would these characters raise?
Again, they would take more space and if the endiness is an issue, then also the running time would increase. And also remember to catch your exceptions, since otherwise you can put easily your server down.