Encoding and displaying characters from different languages used to mean working between multiple different formatting systems within the same project. Even though the introduction of Unicode ...

Here's the story. I've been tasked with creating a network application client. My inclination would be to use Perl, but I thought this would be an interesting experiment to see how well Java would do.

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...