Using Unicode in Java question...

[used_submarine]

Does anyone know how to implement unicode fonts in the
awt frame? I wanted to display some special characters
in a text field, but I can't seem to get the frame to
use the correct font. I know the correct font is
installed on my system because I can preview the symbols
in the Character Map application. When the window is
created it just displays a ? instead of the symbol.
Here's some of the code I'm using.

String test = "\u2665"; // black heart suit symbol

Font font;

Label label;

...

font = new Font("Courier New", Font.PLAIN, 16);

label = new Label(test);

label.setFont(font);

Thanks,

- Mike

[Lowrider]

Try putting single quotes around \u2665 and defining it as a char.

Hope this helps.

Chris

[used_submarine]

Thanks for trying, but it still didn't work. In the frame itself, it is printing out a square, but it prints a question mark in the JBuilder console window when I tested that.

[pedantic]

is "\u2665" even the spade?

what character set are you using, there are many.

font is different, how to display char.

check out:
http://www.unicode.org

I found a spade on:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf

[used_submarine]

Thanks pedantic, but I've already been to Unicode.org. I'm not sure where you're getting all of this talk about "spades", because I was talking about the black hart symbol which is a few boxes down from the spade on Unicode.org.

A friend at school has told me that the Java AWT cannot handle such high level unicode, so I should stick with dollar signs and basic stuff like that. He said it might be possible if I used Swing, but I'm unfamiliar with that. Thanks for trying to help though.

-End of thread-

[pedantic]

Quote:

I'm not sure where you're getting all of this talk about "spades", because I was talking about the black hart symbol which is a few boxes down from the spade on Unicode.org.

lol,lol.

Quote:

is "\u2665" even the spade?
what character set are you using, there are many.