UTF-16 Character Encoding of java

Question

I was trying to understand character encoding in Java. Characters in Java are being stored in 16 bits using UTF-16 encoding. So while i am converting a string containing 6 c

Answer 1

I think this will help: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky

And this will help as well: "UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding [...] The encoding is a variable-length encoding as code points are encoded with one or two 16-bit code units." (from Wikipedia)