why char data of two bytes.

why sun microsystem given a character has a 2bytes capacity.

How many bytes would you use?

Stephan van Hulst wrote:How many bytes would you use?

char takes one byte for each character then why he given char as a 2 bytes.

Ritesh raushan wrote:char takes one byte for each character...

Says who? You've plainly discovered that in Java, it doesn't.

Winston

If a character was only one byte, you could have no more than 256 characters. The latin alphabet alone uses 24 letters and 10 digits. What about all the other languages with their alphabets and special letters and symbols? There is no way you can represent them all with only one byte.

With two bytes, you can represent 65.536 characters. This seems much more adequate.

thanks stephen.