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Note 

UTF-16 depends on the system's byte-ordering conventions. Although in most systems,

high-order bytes follow low-order bytes in a 16-bit or 32-bit "word," some systems use the
reverse order. UTF-16 documents cannot be interchanged between such systems without a
conversion.

Further Information about Character Encoding

The character set and encoding names recognized by Internet authorities are listed in the IANA
character set registry at

http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

The Java programming language represents characters internally using the Unicode character
set, which provides support for most languages. For storage and transmission over networks,
however, many other character encodings are used. The Java 2 platform therefore also supports
character conversion to and from other character encodings. Any Java runtime must support
the Unicode transformations UTF-8, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE as well as the ISO-8859-1
character encoding, but most implementations support many more. For a complete list of the
encodings that can be supported by the Java 2 platform, see

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html

Further Information about Character Encoding

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