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.

New UTF-8 without BOM option A BOM is Unicode character that some text editors and program add to the beginning of a file to indicate that the contents use Unicode encoding. This is an optional ...

While it may not look like much, the image above is a piece of the original email where [Ken Thompson] described what would become the implementation of UTF-8. At the dawn of the computer age in ...

You can even control the type of language encoding Excel uses when reading the file, if your information deals with international names or titles. Use Java's FileWriter classes to create UTF-8 ...

However, you must configure Outlook 2010 to use Unicode UTF-8 text encoding to combine non-Latin characters with English characters in email messages. Enabling UTF-8 encoding in Outlook also ...

Such a problem can be resolved by changing the encoding standard in the application. Today, Unicode (UTF-8) is the most widely used encoding format. Almost all the applications use this encoding ...