There is no "Unicode" encoding. Unicode defines various encodings (like UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 etc.). UTF-8 in particular -the most commonly found Unicode encoding- does NOT use 2 bytes for all characters. Specifically, for characters below 128 it is identical to ASCII, and will thus use single bytes for each character. (To confuse you further, UTF-8 can take between 1 and 6 bytes for a character...)
You should read this:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
If you use String.getBytes it probably does not use any of the Unicode encodings, though - it uses the platform default encoding. That could be Cp-1252, MacRoman, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 or any of a number of other encodings. If you want to encode in UTF-8, call String.getBytes("UTF-8").
while In String Each character takes 2 Bytes as it uses Unicode for the character.
Yes - the JVM internally uses UTF-16, which allocates two bytes for each character. But there is no way of getting at the internal representation of any
Java object, so that fact is moot.
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