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]

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.

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

was talking about the black hart symbol

what's that? you talking deck o'cards, or charset?

everyone knows hearts are RED!

btw, what color is the"?"?