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In Java, how does Unicode strings get compared?
What I mean is, if I have a few say, Japanese strings, when I do the following:
java.util.Arrays.sort(arrayOfJapaneseStrings);
how does those strings get compared and sorted?
By default, Strings sort lexicographically, by Unicode order. The order is by UTF-16, so might not be exactly what you want for certain characters, but Japanese characters are all in the BMP, so you shouldn’t have a problem with these.
If you would like a different sort order, you can use the
java.text.Collatorclasses to define a different sort order.