The Java language allows source code to express Unicode
characters in a UTF-16 encoding, and this is unaffected
by the choice of UTF-8 for the default charset.
Perhaps you pasted the wrong one by mistake?
Not that such a change to the language for future code, even if only hypothetical, would bear any difference to this discussion anyway as legacy Java code encoded in other charsets is still Java code.
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That's not what your link says:
Perhaps you pasted the wrong one by mistake?Not that such a change to the language for future code, even if only hypothetical, would bear any difference to this discussion anyway as legacy Java code encoded in other charsets is still Java code.