Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

With 16-bits allowing for 2 16 = 65,536 code points, the 7,129 characters of Unicode 1.0 fit easily, but by the time Unicode 3.1 rolled around in 2001, Unicode contained no less than 94,140 ...

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 ...