Unicode support for android

Question

I am new in android. I want to know does android support Unicode. If yes, then how can we use it through java code. I have written a program

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Answer 1

I liked the comprehensive answer from Sahaja.

There are some efforts going on to port Harfbuzz-ng rendering engine to android. Here is a link to the source code of porting Harfbuzz-ng for kannada , one of the Indian languages, text rendering.