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 ...

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So if, for example, I'm looking for Unicode character \u00AB or \u00BB, how exactly do you test for<BR>that in a single byte? The maximum value you get in a signed byte is 127.