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Message:

2 byte character vs single byte character

Posted by Matt Gerrans on January 09, 2002 at 5:59 PM

> Hi ,
> how do we find whether a character is 2 byte character or a single byte character

char is always a two-byte data type. Are you trying to find out whether a given character is unicode or ascii? If all but the bottom 7 bits are zero, it is ascii, eg.:

boolean isAscii( char c )
{
   return (c & 0xff80) == 0;
}