Saturday, 3 January 2015

Java Character Data Type

Java uses data type char to store individual characters. Java characters are encoded using 16-bit Unicode character set. The char data type is unsigned and the range of values that can be stored in a char vary from 0 to 65535.

The first 128 characters of the Unicode set are the same as the 128 characters of 7-bit ASCII character set and the first 256 characters of the Unicode correspond to the 256 characters of the extended ASCII (8-bit ISO Latin-1) character set.

Java characters can also be used in integer expressions. The Unicode value of the character is used when it is part of an integer expression.

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