The CLI tool parses strings.xml so that they are uploaded to CDS. Even though it already supported Unicode characters, it didn't support non-BMP UTF-16 surrogate pairs (which are used by some emojis). Previously, such characters were converted to Numeric character references, in the form of &#xhhhh, which was not useful.
Now, they are kept (and pushed) in the original Unicode form.
The CLI tool parses
strings.xmlso that they are uploaded to CDS. Even though it already supported Unicode characters, it didn't support non-BMP UTF-16 surrogate pairs (which are used by some emojis). Previously, such characters were converted to Numeric character references, in the form of &#xhhhh, which was not useful.Now, they are kept (and pushed) in the original Unicode form.