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What are Unicode, UTF-8, and UTF-16?

May 15, 2022 by Tarik

Why do we need Unicode? In the (not too) early days, all that existed was ASCII. This was okay, as all that would ever be needed were a few control characters, punctuation, numbers and letters like the ones in this sentence. Unfortunately, today’s strange world of global intercommunication and social media was not foreseen, and … Read more

What is a “surrogate pair” in Java?

May 12, 2022 by Tarik

The term “surrogate pair” refers to a means of encoding Unicode characters with high code-points in the UTF-16 encoding scheme. In the Unicode character encoding, characters are mapped to values between 0x0 and 0x10FFFF. Internally, Java uses the UTF-16 encoding scheme to store strings of Unicode text. In UTF-16, 16-bit (two-byte) code units are used. … Read more