From 8a5997649b1d45db3dd215d67762e3e0d4a3df25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Rhoten <grhoten@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 21:31:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-5681 Add documentation

X-SVN-Rev: 21677
---
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetUTF8.java | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetUTF8.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetUTF8.java
index 869987d361e..bdd86b4c218 100644
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetUTF8.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetUTF8.java
@@ -366,6 +366,13 @@ donefornow:
     }
 }
 
+/*
+ * The purpose of this class is to set isCESU8 to true in the super class,
+ * and to allow the Charset framework to open the variant UTF-8 converter
+ * without extra setup work.
+ * CESU-8 encodes/decodes supplementary characters as 6 bytes instead of the
+ * proper 4 bytes.
+ */
 class CharsetCESU8 extends CharsetUTF8 {
     public CharsetCESU8(String icuCanonicalName, String javaCanonicalName, String[] aliases){
         super(icuCanonicalName, javaCanonicalName, aliases);