PlainText is a Java 1.4 graphical (GUI) application to convert Unicode characters to plain text characters, for example, to convert left and right quotation marks into plain quotes for web pages.

The Java Text Tables library is the next generation of my original Java Text Table Formatter project. This new project hopes to offer more extensibility and composability, while still providing the ...

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With each new Java platform release, the stewards of the language always include a few new preview features that can be toyed with only if a developer knows how to unlock the capabilities at runtime.

Though Java already has a character type and char keyword to represent and manipulate characters, the language also requires a Character class for two reasons: Character c1 = new Character ('A'); ...

One of the most common problems identified by static code analysis tools is the presence of plain text passwords written directly into configuration files. It's ...