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		<title>Writing UTF-8 CSV Files for Excel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help other applications understand the charset encoding of your files. Maybe the BOM can help.]]></description>
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		<title>International Enhancements in Java SE 6</title>
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		<title>UTF-8 charset encoding update</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of loading and working with ResourceBundle files directly, you will use the ResourceManager and ResourceMap framework classes to manage resources. A ResourceMap contains the resources defined in a specific ResourceBundle implementation. A map also contains links to its parent chain of ResoureMap objects. The parent chain for any class includes the ResourceMap for that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Domain Names</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Java SE 6 release provides an interesting new class: java.net.IDN. It&#8217;s small, simple&#8230;very focused on a single task. That task has two parts: to convert domain names from practically any Unicode character to an ASCII Compatible Encoding or ACE. to convert ACE names back into their full Unicode UTF-16 encoding To support these two [...]]]></description>
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