russian character issue

[jomypgeorge]

hi friends,

i have a java code which just print russian character string to console.
program is as below

  class A
  {
  public static void main(String ... args)
  {
  System.out.print("FДКЗ CУЯILLIC GЗИЗЯДTФЯ ");
  }
  }

but it fails on compiling.

can anyone say whats happening in it?
how can i use russian character in java?

thanks in advance......

[Eranga]

IF you are fails in compile, there should be an error message. What was that?

[Petr]

Hi, First you have mistake in main methods. Second, You need just set special encoding for output. looks like.

public class RusOut {
    public static void main(String[] arg) {
        System.setProperty("console.encoding","Cp866");
        System.out.println("Привет из России! :)");
    }
}

[DarrylBurke]

Hi, First you have mistake in main methods.

What mistake is that?

db

[Petr]

Oh Sorry it's OK. This construction for main method with varargs looks strange for me. Sorry it's my mistake :)

[DarrylBurke]

Ah ok. I thought you might have spotted something I didn't.

db

[jomypgeorge]

thank you all for quick reply.

but i cant save my java file when it contains russian characters.
i am using notepad in windows, and it ask me to save using unicode encoding.

when i save it using unicode javac command produce much errors....

[DarrylBurke]

Notepad introduces a BOM (byte order mark) at the beginning of the file. Use a proper code editor, or open the file with a hex editor and remove the first 3 (?) characters after saving it in Notepad.

javac command produce much errors....

You should copy and paste those errors here, so that members trying to help don't have to guess.

db

[jomypgeorge]

i have made a small change in my program.
i saved my russian string in a txt file and tried to read it from my java code

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
  
class a
  {

  public static void main(String ... args)
  	{
 		System.setProperty("console.encoding","Cp866");
        	try
		{
			FileInputStream fr = new FileInputStream ("a.txt");
			InputStreamReader ir= new InputStreamReader(fr , "Cp866");

        		BufferedReader br  = new BufferedReader (ir);
        

			String line;
        		while ((line = br.readLine()) !=null)
        			{
				System.out.println(line);
           			
        			}
		}
		catch (Exception e)
		{}


  	}
  }

but it produce

▼♦@♦8♦2♦5♦B♦ 8♦7♦ ♦>♦A♦A♦8♦8♦! as output

[Petr]

You try to set a "windows-1251" for InputStreamReader.

[jomypgeorge]

no change on adding ISO-8859-5

[jomypgeorge]

peter i tried "windows-1251" but same result

[JosAH]

but it produce

▼♦@♦8♦2♦5♦B♦ 8♦7♦ ♦>♦A♦A♦8♦8♦! as output

So your file was encoded using a different encoding. The encoding and decoding methods have to be equal of course. When I write your original example using UTF-8 everything works fine (in Eclipse, it uses UTF-8).

kind regards,

Jos