What’s the difference between ASCII and Unicode?

ASCII defines 128 characters, which map to the numbers 0–127. Unicode defines (less than) 221 characters, which, similarly, map to numbers 0–221 (though not all numbers are currently assigned, and some are reserved). Unicode is a superset of ASCII, and the numbers 0–127 have the same meaning in ASCII as they have in Unicode. For example, the … Read more

How to get the ASCII value of a character

From here: The function ord() gets the int value of the char. And in case you want to convert back after playing with the number, function chr() does the trick. In Python 2, there was also the unichr function, returning the Unicode character whose ordinal is the unichr argument: In Python 3 you can use chr instead of unichr. ord() – Python 3.6.5rc1 documentation ord() – Python 2.7.14 documentation

What’s the difference between ASCII and Unicode?

ASCII defines 128 characters, which map to the numbers 0–127. Unicode defines (less than) 221 characters, which, similarly, map to numbers 0–221 (though not all numbers are currently assigned, and some are reserved). Unicode is a superset of ASCII, and the numbers 0–127 have the same meaning in ASCII as they have in Unicode. For example, the … Read more

What’s the difference between ASCII and Unicode?

ASCII defines 128 characters, which map to the numbers 0–127. Unicode defines (less than) 221 characters, which, similarly, map to numbers 0–221 (though not all numbers are currently assigned, and some are reserved). Unicode is a superset of ASCII, and the numbers 0–127 have the same meaning in ASCII as they have in Unicode. For example, the … Read more

Convert an int to ASCII character

Straightforward way: Safer way: Generic way: Handy way: C++ way: (taken from Dave18 answer) Boss way: Joe, write me an int to char converter Studboss way: char aChar = ‘6’; Joe’s way: char aChar = ‘6’; //int i = 6; Nasa’s way: //Waiting for reply from satellite… Alien’s way: ‘9’ //Greetings. God’s way: Bruh I built … Read more

Invisible characters – ASCII

How a character is represented is up to the renderer, but the server may also strip out certain characters before sending the document. You can also have untitled YouTube videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmBvw8uPbrA by using the Unicode character ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER (U+200C), or ‌ in HTML. The code block below should contain that character:

Reading a plain text file in Java

ASCII is a TEXT file so you would use Readers for reading. Java also supports reading from a binary file using InputStreams. If the files being read are huge then you would want to use a BufferedReader on top of a FileReader to improve read performance. Go through this article on how to use a Reader I’d also recommend you download and read this wonderful … Read more