Character Sets and Encodings
Character Sets
A character set is a set of textual and graphic symbols, each of which is mapped to a set of nonnegative integers.
The first character set used in computing was US-ASCII. It is limited in that it can represent only American English. US-ASCII contains upper- and lowercase Latin alphabets, numerals, punctuation, a set of control codes, and a few miscellaneous symbols.
Unicode defines a standardized, universal character set that can be extended to accommodate additions. When the Java program source file encoding doesn't support Unicode, you can represent Unicode characters as escape sequences by using the notation \uXXXX, where XXXX is the character's 16-bit representation in hexadecimal. For example, ...
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