Unicode

[Zelaine]

Hello!

I'm writing a card game called "Twenty-one", and for that I wanted the card symbols (Hearts, diamonds etc.) which are available in Unicode. So I filled a Vector<String> with cards and with the symbols which were presented on Unicode's website, but when I try to output them I only get a question mark instead of the card symbols. So I'm wondering if I need to import something to be able to see them. I'm using Eclipse btw. Here is my code:

Vector<String> cards = new Vector<String>();
cards.addAll(Arrays.asList("\u2664 E", "\u2664 2", "\u2664 3", "\u2664 4", "\u2664 5", "\u2664 6", "\u2664 7", "\u2664 8", "\u2664 9", "\u2664 10", "\u2664 Knight", "\u2664 Queen", "\u2664 King",
					       "\u2665 E", "\u2665 2", "\u2665 3", "\u2665 4", "\u2665 5", "\u2665 6", "\u2665 7", "\u2665 8", "\u2665 9", "\u2665 10", "\u2665 Knight", "\u2665 Queen", "\u2665 King",
					       "\u2666 E", "\u2666 2", "\u2666 3", "\u2666 4", "\u2666 5", "\u2666 6", "\u2666 7", "\u2666 8", "\u2666 9", "\u2666 10", "\u2666 Knight", "\u2666 Queen", "\u2666 King",
					       "\u2667 E", "\u2667 2", "\u2667 3", "\u2667 4", "\u2667 5", "\u2667 6", "\u2667 7", "\u2667 8", "\u2667 9", "\u2667 10", "\u2667 Knight", "\u2667 Queen", "\u2667 King"));

[AndrewM16921]

Where are you printing the results? Eclipse console? Try in cmd line. Or writing it out to a file and viewing it in notepad.

Edit:

Did some research, found out Java is a little odd with different encodings. Try doing it this way:

String str = new String(new byte[] { (byte)'\u2664', ' ', 'E' }, "utf-8");
System.out.println(str);

And see if it suits your needs. Not very nice looking... I'm sure there is a better way to do it, though.

[JosAH]

What happens if you print the following in your Eclipse console? (it prints fine for me)

System.out.println("\u2664 E");

kind regards,

Jos

[Zelaine]

@ AndrewM16921 I'm printing the results in the Eclipse console, yes.
I will try doing that, thanks :) It is going to be tedious doing it for every element in my string vector though...

@ JosAH It just prints the \u2664 part as a question mark, but the rest is fine. Strange thing though is that when I run the program in BlueJ instead, it works fine.

[Norm]

(byte)'\u2664'

Converting a 2 byte Unicode char to a byte would drop the upper half of the bits in the character.

[AndrewM16921]

Converting a 2 byte Unicode char to a byte would drop the upper half of the bits in the character.

Oh true x_x good point

[Zelaine]

So how does one make them visible then? They're visible in BlueJ, but strangely enough not in Eclipse...

[AndrewM16921]

Window > Preferences > General > Workspace > set text file encoding to UTF-8.

[Zelaine]

Thanks! It is finally working :)