Character Sets and Codings
Most people are familiar with the ASCII character set. This 7-bit character set represents the upper- and lowercase letters a-z, digits 0-9, control characters, and special characters. Although this character set is sufficient for most English-language programs, it is not sufficient for programs in other languages, such as Spanish and German, which require special accent marks, and Japanese, which requires a whole new character set.
Unlike earlier programming languages, Java has provided comprehensive support for the Unicode 2.0 character set from the beginning.
Unicode is a 16-bit character set, meaning that it is capable of representing 65,536 characters. This is a large character set; it can be used to represent ...
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