My problem is this: I have a description field in a web form. People are constantly pasting stuff in from Microsoft Word and the like. Curly quotes and trademarks are destroying my world.Does ...

If you are running Java through your terminal or command line without a separate library of graphical user interface components, your "system.out.println()" method may not use Unicode by default.

Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web, Mark Davis, Google's senior international software architect, said in a blog post.