Why is a char two bytes?

[imranhassan27]

why character takes two bytes in java

[BigDaddyLH]

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[BigDaddyLH]

A char holds a Unicode value, which is two bytes:

http://www.unicode.org/

Supplementary characters must be represented either as a surrogate pair within a char sequence, or as an integer, depending on the API they are used with.