On 05/04/18 02:09, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
Try UTF-16, what Microsoft (and a couple of years ago Apple) love to call "Unicode": in more "Western" contexts every second byte is NULL!
The Java platform uses UTF-16 internally:"The char data type (and therefore the value that a Character object encapsulates) are based on the original Unicode specification, which defined characters as fixed-width 16-bit entities."
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand