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From Marcus Green site: For reasons of compactness Java uses a system called UTF-8 for string literals, identifiers and other text within programs. From Roberts, Heller: Java uses two kinds of text representation: Unicode for internal representation of characters and strings I'm assuming one of these statements is incorrect. Could someone help? Thanks!
Angela Lamb
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I may be wrong, but I think the Marcus Green quote is referring to the actual text of the Java code, while the RHE quote is talking about character and string variables within a program.
Jane Griscti
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j_mcd, Unicode is a 16-bit international character set standard which consists of a standard 8-bit subset that corresponds to the older ASCII and Latin-1 character sets (the ones most commonly used under DOS). UTF-8 is the standard encoding name used to identify text stored as Unicode 8-bit characters. UTF-16 is the standard encoding name used to identify text stored as Unicode 16-bit characters. If you use a Win/DOS based system, the source files you create will most likely be saved as 8-bit characters. Java translates these into 16-bit Unicode before processing the source file. Hope that helps. PS Please read the JavaRanch Name Policy and re-register using a name that complies with the rules. Thanks for your cooperation. ------------------ Jane Griscti Sun Certified Programmer for the Java� 2 Platform
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