Herong's Tutorial Examples: Unicode

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💬 2026-02-17 Mariah Carey: Thanks

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List of Supported Character Encodings in Java
This section provides a list of supported character encodings supported in Java. The list is generated using the availableCharsets() static method in the java.nio.charset.Charset class. 2020-02-25, ≈27🔥, 3💬

💬 2020-02-25 Herong: Give me some clues, like where did you get this from?

💬 2020-02-19 kgs: Tell me encoding of this one: �� ...

💬 2015-11-27 nawed ahmed khan: Thanks☺

UTF-16LE Encoding
This section provides a quick introduction of the UTF-16LE (Unicode Transformation Format - 16-bit Little Endian) encoding for Unicode character set. UTF-16LE is a variation of UTF-16. 2025-09-23, ≈25🔥, 24💬

💬 2024-03-21 Lawrence: Hi! I would like to learn how to code

💬 2024-03-18 bob: & E:\\github\\TL-6157_VhdServiceClient CLI\\infra-vhd-service\\src\\infra_v hd_service\\mount_dismount_vhd.ps1-drive_letter J...

💬 2024-01-16 alert("hello"): <script> alert("hello") </script>

💬 2023-07-02 Robert Kučera: U2FsdGVkX1+0hNJU24eqEsbTKsJxnpZ2KjSz b0TufyBbuu8NU1q0U1odiDkKM2MM

💬 2023-02-26 diyar: 48bb6e862e54f2a795ffc4e541caed4d

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UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE Encodings
This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE encodings. Topics including encoding and decoding logics of UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE encodings; introduction of surrogate pairs; explanation of the use of BOM (Byte Order Mark). 2023-12-05, ≈19🔥, 14💬

💬 2023-12-05 g: 21 53 93 68 87 65 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 31 00 30 00 31 00 32 00 30 00 30 00 30...

💬 2023-11-30 4654: 0055 002b 0031 0031 0031 0041 0045

💬 2023-05-21 Rt: OX_+'(Ξ6 R Kf ò:eV£ΘWLY2rX%ÄùdÖ4fdΩsΠMßΔ7b¡_¥ì Ψ Æ=+SFΦ+ELQ*c ò!0¿D

💬 2021-07-20 abraham: thankyou

💬 2019-08-09 asas: Haga contacto con su administrador del sistema si desea obtener más información

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UTF-16BE Encoding
This section provides a quick introduction of the UTF-16BE (Unicode Transformation Format - 16-bit Big Endian) encoding for Unicode character set. UTF-16BE is a variation of UTF-16. 2026-02-17, ≈11🔥, 25💬

💬 2026-02-17 d: 灩捯䍔䙻ㄶ形楴獟楮獴㌴摟潦弸形㝦㘲捡㕽

💬 2023-11-27 yooo: 灩捯䍔䙻ㄶ形楴獟楮獴㌴摟潦弸強㕤㐸㤸扽

💬 2023-11-01 Udit Singh Dhakrey: <script>alert("is I am able to hack")</script>

💬 2022-08-26 asewathy: 灩捯䍔䙻ㄶ形楴獟楮獴㌴摟潦弸弰㑣〷㘰摽

💬 2022-03-02 Seth Cox: Hello

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UTF-8 Encoding Algorithm
This section provides a tutorial example on how to write a programming algorithm to encode characters with UTF-8 encoding. 2023-09-08, ∼9128🔥, 8💬

💬 2023-07-22 Ian Brooke: If you're going to include pseudo code like that you need to define exactly what the different symbols do as they mean different...

💬 2023-02-01 Abdelrahman: Thank you very much!

💬 2023-01-31 Herong: Abdelrahman, you can read the " UTF-8 Encoding " section. It contains UTF-8 encoding requirements and example. The 6-bit shiftin...

💬 2023-01-29 Abdelrahman: Thank you for this, Herong! The algorithm is simple and clear to understand. The one part that I don't understand is why it uses...

💬 2019-09-27 Andrew Dillon: This was very useful. It really helped clarify the explanation in the Unicode Specification. Thank you!

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Opening UTF-16LE Text Files
This section provides a tutorial example on how to open a UTF-16LE text file with Nodepad correctly by selecting the Unicode encoding option on the open file dialog box. 2023-08-23, ∼9062🔥, 7💬

💬 2023-08-23 yop: Notepad--

💬 2022-08-08 Herong: Gregg, I am using Notepad, not Notepad++.

💬 2022-08-03 Gregg: I am running v*.2.1 (64 bit) of Notepad++ and I do not see ANYTHING relating to Unicode. My File->Open popup is totally differen...

💬 2018-09-09 Nit: GIF89a��!�, T;

💬 2018-02-12 Herong: Krishna, dates should have nothing to do with UTF-16 LE format. Can you provide some examples?

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Examples of Unicode Characters
Some samples of Unicode characters are provided here with their glyphs, code points, code names and code blocks for the purpose of demonstration. 2024-01-23, ∼7040🔥, 0💬

Using Microsoft Excel as a Unicode Text Editor
This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on using Microsoft Excel as a Unicode text editor. Topics including testing to open text files in 3 encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE; saving and opening Unicode text files in UTF-16 (Little-Endian with BOM) format. 2016-10-03, ∼4999🔥, 1💬

💬 2016-10-03 zoltan: useful

Examples of CP1252 and ISO-8859-1 Encodings
This section provides examples of encoded byte sequences of the JVM default encoding, CP1252 encoding, on a Windows system. The ISO-8859-1 encoding is slightly different that the CP1252 encoding. 2022-06-21, ∼4890🔥, 3💬

💬 2020-02-24 Muhammad Ijaz: i am Muhammad Ijaz

UTF-16 Encoding
This section provides a quick introduction of the UTF-16 (Unicode Transformation Format - 16-bit) encoding for Unicode character set. Paired surrogates are used for characters in the U+10000...0x10FFFF range. 2024-11-04, ∼4809🔥, 5💬

💬 2021-11-09 77: *9999

💬 2016-12-28 anson: what a detail of explain. i think i complete understand it. thanks very much.

Downloading and Installing GNU Unifont
A tutorial example is provided on how to download and install GNU Unifont font family on Windows 7 systems. 2023-07-19, ∼4506🔥, 5💬

💬 2023-07-19 DoublePOOF: thank you

💬 2019-10-23 Sajjad Amin: thank you

💬 2019-07-28 dipen: thank you.

💬 2015-12-06 Herong: D, maybe you can start with What Is Unicode? .

💬 2015-12-05 d gayen: i want to understand what is unicode

Shift-JIS Encoding
This section provides a quick introduction of Shift-JIS, also called MS Kanji, encoding, which maps a JIS X0208 character to a 2-byte sequence using a complicated schema designed by Microsoft. 2025-10-22, ∼4398🔥, 11💬

💬 2025-10-22 hammond: チョータノシー

💬 2022-03-12 ddfdfd: hey how are you

💬 2021-12-01 lakshay: what is shift-jis encoding

💬 2020-09-18 Utkarsj: hello hi bye

💬 2020-04-03 Qqqq: スーパー

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0600: Arabic
This section provides a quick summary of the Unicode code point block: 'Arabic', which contains 256 code points to represent alphabetic letters used in the Arabic language. 2024-01-23, ∼3834🔥, 0💬

Opening UTF-8 Text Files
This section provides a tutorial example on how to open a UTF-8 text file with Nodepad correctly by selecting the UTF-8 encoding option on the open file dialog box. 2022-03-22, ∼3735🔥, 3💬

Saving Files in "Unicode (UTF-8)" Option
This section provides a tutorial example on how to save text files with Nodepad by selecting the 'Unicode (UTF-8)' encoding option on the file conversion dialog box. 2018-07-17, ∼3639🔥, 2💬

💬 2018-07-17 Me: Very good, but Unicode (nothing else) worked for me!

💬 2016-10-08 shital p: it's works fine for me thank u

2600: Miscellaneous Symbols
This section provides a quick summary of the Unicode code point block: 'Miscellaneous Symbols', which contains 160 code points to represent more miscellaneous symbols. 2024-01-23, ∼3620🔥, 0💬

Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples
This Unicode tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Unicode himself. Topics include Character Sets and Encodings; GB2312/GB18030 Character Set and Encodings; JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings; Unicode Character Set; Basic Multilingual ... 2015-09-14, ∼3548🔥, 1💬

Using Microsoft Word as a Unicode Text Editor
This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on using Microsoft Word as a Unicode text editor. Topics including opening Unicode text files in 3 encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE; saving and opening Unicode text files with the BOM character prepended. 2023-07-13, ∼3340🔥, 3💬

💬 2019-06-01 Herong: Adriaan, I can only find the peace symbol: ☮ (U+262E).

💬 2019-05-31 Adriaan: I am a pensioner, physically disabled, wheelchair, writing a book, topic: Revolution vs Evolution. I need about 10 unicode symbo...

Full Version in PDF/EPUB
Information on how to obtain the full version of this book in PDF, EPUB, or other format. 2018-02-07, ∼3253🔥, 5💬

💬 2017-01-08 Herong: Rex, see my email to your qq.com account.

💬 2017-01-08 rex: how to download this book

💬 2015-09-09 mani: require more details

AC00: Hangul Syllables
This section provides a quick summary of the Unicode code point block: 'Hangul Syllables', which contains 11184 code points to represent Hangul syllables used in the Korean language. 2024-01-23, ∼3207🔥, 0💬

Byte Order Mark (BOM) - FEFF - EFBBBF
This section provides a brief introduction on the Byte Order Mark (BOM) character, U+FEFF, used as the Unicode character stream signature when prepended to a character stream. The U+FEFF character becomes a 3-byte sequence of EFBBBF when encoded in UTF-8. 2023-06-22, ∼2989🔥, 1💬

GB18030 Character Set and Encoding
This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on GB18030 character set and encoding. Topics including history of GB character sets: GB2312, GB1300.1 (GBK) and GB18030; GB18030 encoding schema. 2022-05-06, ∼2949🔥, 7💬

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💬 2020-04-10 JeeHan: hí hố hồ hè

💬 2020-02-20 a: bière

UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE Encodings
This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE encodings. Topics including encoding and decoding logics of UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE encodings; explanation of the use of BOM (Byte Order Mark). 2023-01-01, ∼2687🔥, 2💬

Saving Files in "Unicode" Option
This section provides a tutorial example on how to save text files with Nodepad by selecting the Unicode encoding option on the save file dialog box. 2024-01-22, ∼2572🔥, 2💬

💬 2024-01-22 Herong: Jimmy, I am glad this is helpful to you. And thank you for your note on Word custom dictionary files.

💬 2024-01-21 Jimmy Li: Thanks so much,this is what I'm looking for. Word custom dictionaries use this format, so any program creating custom dictionari...

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