What does it mean to say “Java Modified UTF-8 Encoding”?

Question

What does it mean to say \"Java Modified UTF-8 Encoding\" ? How is it different from normal UTF-8 Encoding?

Answer 1

The Java programming language, which uses UTF-16 for its internal text representation, supports a non-standard modification of UTF-8 for string serialization. This encoding is called modified UTF-8. There are two differences between modified and standard UTF-8. The first difference is that the null character (U+0000) is encoded with two bytes instead of one, specifically as 11000000 10000000.