On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 21:02:29 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:

>(What does Java use internally?)
>
>-- gil

Currently Java does use UTF-16, but Java 9 will get a little smarter about 
that, storing ins 1 byte/character ISO8859-1/Latin-1 where it can. 
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/254

The G1 garbage collector (which I believe will be the new default) will also 
get string deduplication:
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/192

Since those are internal JVM things, if those make will it into the IBM JVM I 
of course don't know. 

Scott Chapman

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