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		wolfgangK on June 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scala on LLVM I would have sworn that it was utf-16 (which is still Unicode enough btw) .

jbooth on June 6, 2011 [–]

Java chars are 2 bytes, but the default String encoding when serializing to/from byte[] arrays and streams is UTF-8 (on unix at least, may vary on windows).

jbooth on June 6, 2011 | [–]

Uh, not sure why this comment was controversial?

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