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The Unicode Standard is a character coding system designed to form a universal character set. This standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium standards organization. The characters in this set are technically known as Unicode scalar values (in other words, hex numbers). Commonly known as Unicode characters, the characters are primarily organized into symbol and punctuation characters, as well as script characters (for example, spoken language characters).

Literal values in Java can be written using Unicode, as shown in the following examples:

Code charts for Unicode are maintained by the consortium for easy reference. ...

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