If you are running Java through your terminal or command line without a separate library of graphical user interface components, your "system.out.println()" method may not use Unicode by default.

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 goal of the project is to create an application that is capable of turning a Unicode value into its equivalent UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 value. Either in Java (GUI), Web (GUI), HDL, C, C++, Python ...