You can only represent the ASCII subset of Unicode within the range of a byte. If you wanted to filter one or more Unicode characters from a Java stream, you're hosed!

Java is an object-oriented programming language, but there’s more to Java than programming with objects. This tutorial is the first of several introducing non-object-oriented features and syntax ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator support Asian and other non-English characters, but neither browser is good at displaying these characters in applets. This tip describes how to ...