Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

Success was mixed because of the number of steps required: copy and paste unknown characters as text, convert text to data bytes using the system's default encoding, convert bytes back to text as ...

The UTF-16 encoding represents all Unicode code points in a variable-length code thereby saving space, though not as much as UTF-8 encoding. With UTF-8, if a character can be represented with 1 byte ...

W3C decided that non-printable control characters (with a few exceptions) are not valid XML characters. The server I'm talking to expects a Ctrl-A as a start of frame, and a Ctrl-C as an end of frame.

Java developers use the Character, String, StringBuffer, and StringTokenizer classes to represent and manipulate text in programs. Learn how to create objects from these classes and examine their ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator support Asian and other non-English characters, but neither browser is good at displaying these characters in applets. This tip describes how to ...