By Xueming Shen The UTF-8 charset implementation, which is available in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun, has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences. This is because ...

If you are running Java through your terminal or command line without a separate library of graphical user interface components, your "system.out.println()" method may not use Unicode by default.

PlainText is a Java 1.4 graphical (GUI) application to convert Unicode characters to plain text characters, for example, to convert left and right quotation marks into plain quotes for web pages.

CharMap is a Java 5.0 graphical (GUI) application to display Unicode characters or glyphs in text fonts, and copy those characters to the system clipboard. Its major purpose is as a visual accessory ...

Using Unicode with MySQL 4.1 is simple, and there are two ways to specify which character set to use. The first approach specifies a character set as the default for a table; the second declares a ...

Here's the story. I've been tasked with creating a network application client. My inclination would be to use Perl, but I thought this would be an interesting experiment to see how well Java would ...