Ah, good old charsets, who doesn’t like them! With so many variations in operating systems, programming languages, human languages, geographical locations etc. what could possibly go wrong when we try to read from or write to files, sockets, screens and other input-output devices? It turns out, quite a lot. There’s no shortage of developer horror stories caused by wrong or improper encoding of data. While Java 18 doesn’t promise a silver bullet, it makes a step in the right direction be...
