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Strings

What does this print?

byte[] buf = new byte[]{'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd'}; String s = new String(buf); System.out.println(s);

Obviously, the answer is the infamous “Hello World”. Unless you live in China or Japan. More about that later.

Let’s make it a bit more exiting:

byte[] buf = new byte[]{'H', (byte) 0xEB, 'l', 'l', [...]