Can anyone explain what unicode is and how and why its used in java
Not many languages can be written using just the American alphabet. A lot
of European language use diacritics, other characters etc. Arabic languages
use completely different characters and so do Japanese, Chinese etc. etc.
The ASCII code set is too small to identify all those different characters; that's
why Unicode was invented. Java characters are Unicode characters. I18N and
L10N (InternationalizatioN and LocalizatioN) are quite easy using Java.
kind regards,
Jos