What is Java Unicode System?

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Unicode is a 16-bit character encoding standard and is capable to represent almost every character of well-known languages of the world.

Before Unicode, there were multiple standards to represent character encoding −

  • ASCII   - for the United States.

  • ISO 8859-1 for Western European Language.

  • KOI-8 for Russian.

  • GB18030 and BIG-5 for Chinese.

So to support multinational application codes, some character was using single byte, some two. An even same code may represent a different character in one language and may represent other characters in another language.

To overcome above shortcoming, the unicode system was developed where each character is represented by 2 bytes.

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Arjun Thakur
Published on 22-Jan-2018 05:58:07
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