- Written by: Thomas Weise
If you do not live in an English-speaking country, your language will make use of all sorts of odd characters, such as "ä", "ö", "ü", and "ß" in German or "你" and "我" in Chinese. Of course, you intend that such characters, if used in your web page, blog posts, or text files, come out correctly on the screen of your readers. In my course on Distributed Computing, there actually is a lesson on text encoding, but I can only briefly touch the topic there. Here I just want to summarize it a bit more comprehensively.
- Written by: Thomas Weise
Sometimes, I come across the need for creating temporary files in my (Java) programs. For this purpose, I usually use Java's NIO with the Path API instead of the old File API. Here I discuss how a directory for temporary files further be scoped in time with Java's try-with-resources.
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