April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Unicode Transformation Format-8 (UTF-8) is a character set that encapsulates all Unicode characters using one to four 8-bit bytes. It is the byte-oriented encoded form of Unicode. UTF-8 is and has been the predominant character set for encoding web pages since 2009. Here are some characteristics of UTF-8:
The pervasive use of UTF-8 underscores the importance of ensuring the Java platform fully supports UTF-8. This mindset led to the Java Enhancement Proposal 226, UTF-8 property resource bundles. With Java 9 applications, we have the ability to specify property ...