Java, UCS-2, and UTF

From: Everett Anderson (eea1@cs.wustl.edu)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 22:45:05 EDT

Hi,

I have a question about transmission formats for Unicode with the Java
language.

First of all, does anyone know how Java encodes its chars? I'm under the
impression that it's UCS-2.

Is it possible to send all 16-bit Java chars (converted directly to bytes
without using a character converter) over the network and have another
program successfully convert them to Unicode? Is it required that they be
put into a UTF format for transmission?

Thanks,
Everett

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