Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

News. Microsoft Announces Built-in Support for Lombok in VS Code for Java. By David Ramel; July 19, 2022; The latest update to Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java source code ...