hello people,

On page 62 of Mr. Horton's book, he talks about the unicode characterset. I've listed below my attempt to print out the unicode character set on my console. What it does is to initialize a variable c of type char to '\u0000'. I also set up a counter of type int that goes up to 4999 starting from 0. In the for() loop, i print the value of c and increment it in the very next line.

Here's the code..

public class cha
{
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                char c = '\u0000' // I want c to hold the unicode value
                int count = 0;
                for(; count < 5000; count++)
                {
                        System.out.print( c + " ");
                        c++;
                }
        }
}



however, all i get are a few characters (which i now suspect are ASCII in nature) followed by '?' marks. What's with the program? What am i doing wrong? Or am i doing something that inherently can't be done?

Thanks in advance for your inputs!

Kaizer.

Kaizer Billimoria
Bangalore, India

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Kaizer Billimoria
Bangalore, India

Today I saw a wonderful book called Unicode 4.0. It refered to their website, I think you should find it through Google. There all the characters should be listed, and also the way to implement them (through Java) on your system. You could also search out the Sun website, how they aproach the Unicode.
Naturally your system (and the systems of the people you send your Applets) would have to be informed beforehand about the Unicode you want to use.

If you worked it all out, could you please here reply if you find that the Hindi (Devanagari) characters are adequately covered by the Unicode character set. I mean: beside the Devanagari alphabet you have all these composite letter signs (kr, st, etc.), and I cannot imagine them all being part of the Unicode set.

They have Bengali for you too, and other Indian languages!

Good luck and let us know!!!

Frans
Holland

It appears that you are encountering a code page problem. The output that you see is dependent upon the underlaying code page of the operating system that you are using. The following URL explains this in more detail than I could:

http://www.javajunkies.org/index.pl?...1&node_id=2821

Cheers

Martyn

Thanks Martyn,

Kaizer.


Kaizer Billimoria
Bangalore, India