You initialize an int variable defined within a method to have a value of 0 until you compute specific values for the int. What can on
As you will see in linked discussion there is no need for initializing char with special character as it's done for us and is represented by '\u0000' character code.
So if we want simply to check if specified char was initialized just write:
if(charVariable != '\u0000'){
actionsOnInitializedCharacter();
}
Link to question: what's the default value of char?