If you've ever run into problems faced with multi-lingual text differences, Jason's latest article will solve just that. Learn how to make use of Unicode character-sets when developing in a J2ME-based environment, where you'll more than likely have a need to develop MIDlets in multiple languages.
What and Why Unicode
Unicode is a unique representation of a character; these characters range from Latin, Hebrew, and Japanese unique symbols. This character set is a universal standard called the ISO/IEC 10646, and can be compared to using ASCII. Like ASCII, a number represents each character; however, ASCII is limited to 7 bits, or in other words 128 character limitations. This has been able to cover everything in English-like languages and a few other symbols but, what about other languages and other symbols?
