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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by chubot on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:49AM (#26777221)
I think you’re confusing Unicode and utf8. java uses Unicode but not utf8; it uses a 2 byte encoding with surrogate pairs by default.

ASCII is utf8, but it’s not utf16. ASCII will be around for as long as utf8 is.

Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by rusk on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:19AM (#26777810)
I’m almost certain the default encoding for reading/writing files in Java is UTF-8 and similarly for the source files. I don’t think I encounter wide char data much really at all day to day ...