Once surrogate characters start to be defined, Character.getType()
will need to be expanded to take two characters. Internally,
the code will need to be modified to efficiently store the
character properties for surrogates.

For ease of use, String.getType(int position) should also be
added. It would be the equivalent of:

ch = charAt(position);
if (ch >= \uD800 && ch < \uDC00 && position + 1 < length()) {
 return Character.getType(ch,charAt(position+1));
} else {
 return Character.getType(ch);
}
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Determined that this is not necessary for merlin at this time.
  xxxxx@xxxxx   2000-07-19



This will be addressed by Tiger feature 4533872.

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