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Re:Java Feature Spotlight: Text Blocks by bpicolo on Friday May 01, 2020 @10:46AM (#23042475)
Yeah, I'm thinking higher level, for sure, rather than limitations of the language - fair to call out.

You can specify UTF-8 as the default charset (unless you mean for identifiers?) and Grall does exist for AOT.

Re:Java Feature Spotlight: Text Blocks by MaxBarraclough on Friday May 01, 2020 @04:20PM (#23046093)
I thought Java's String was hard-coded to UTF-16. Is that mistaken?