svn commit: r498967 - /incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/references/ref.cas.xml

[tw...@apache.org]

Author: twgoetz
Date: Tue Jan 23 01:42:07 2007
New Revision: 498967

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=498967
Log:
Improve CAS documentation.

Modified:
    incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/references/ref.cas.xml

Modified: incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/references/ref.cas.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/references/ref.cas.xml?view=diff&rev=498967&r1=498966&r2=498967
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--- incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/references/ref.cas.xml (original)
+++ incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/references/ref.cas.xml Tue Jan 23 01:42:07 2007
@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@
         <literal>uima.cas.Short</literal>, <literal>uima.cas.Integer</literal>,
         <literal>uima.cas.Long</literal>, <literal>uima.cas.Float</literal>
         ,<literal> uima.cas.Double</literal> and <literal>uima.cas.String</literal>
-        . The strings are Java strings (each character is a 16 bit Unicode unicode character).
+        . The strings are Java strings, and characters are Java characters.  Technically, this means
+        that characters are UTF-16 code points, which is not quite the same as a Unicode character.
+        This distinction should make no difference for almost all applications.
         The CAS also defines other basic built-in types for arrays of these, plus arrays of
         references to other objects, called <literal>uima.cas.IntegerArray</literal>
         ,<literal> uima.cas.FloatArray</literal>,