I am reading for SCJP and I have a question regarding this line: Identifiers must start with a letter, a currency character ($), or a connecting character such as the underscore ( _ ). Identifiers cannot start with a number! It states that a valid identifier name can start with a connecting character such as …
Tag: unicode
Unicode text through socket in java
I am facing a tiny issue (I believe) in socket programming. When sending text from non-English languages, I get garbled results. After a lot of researching on google, I made some corrections. I changed getBytes() to getBytes(“UTF-8”) and tried to send some Arabic text. When connecting sockets loca…
Creating Unicode character from its number
I want to display a Unicode character in Java. If I do this, it works just fine: String symbol = “u2202”; symbol is equal to “∂”. That’s what I want. The problem is that I know the Unicode …
How to display X-Bar statistics symbol in Java Swing label?
What’s the best way to insert statistics symbols in a JLabel’s text? For example, the x-bar? I tried assigning the text field the following with no success: Answer Html codes will not work in Java. However, you can use the unicode escape in Java Strings. For example: Also, here is a cool website f…
Java FileReader encoding issue
I tried to use java.io.FileReader to read some text files and convert them into a string, but I found the result is wrongly encoded and not readable at all. Here’s my environment: Windows 2003, OS encoding: CP1252 Java 5.0 My files are UTF-8 encoded or CP1252 encoded, and some of them (UTF-8 encoded fil…
The encoding ‘UTF-8’ is not supported by the Java runtime
Whenever I start our Apache Felix (OSGi) based application under SUN Java ( build 1.6.0_10-rc2-b32 and other 1.6.x builds) I see the following message output on the console (usually under Ubuntu 8.4): Warning: The encoding ‘UTF-8’ is not supported by the Java runtime. I’ve seen this message …