java.awt components not able to display some non-english

Hi All,

While we are Localizing our product we faced below problem:

java.awt components not able to display some non-english
charecters like \u2019 , \u2018 , \u2026 , \u2013 , \u8230 .

java.awt components used in our application-
1. java.awt.Choice
2.java.awt.TextField
3.java.awt.List
4.java.awt.Label

Work around:

- We tried by chaning the System Locale to chinese, then it start
diplaying properly which is not feasible solution.

NOTE:
1. Please run TestUnicode.java for how java.awt components displays
garbage values in java.awt.Choice,java.awt.TextField.

2. please run unicode.html for actual chars to be displayed.
code:

/* TestUnicode.java */

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;

public class TestUnicode {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Frame f = new Frame();
Choice ch = new Choice();
f.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
ch.addItem("\u2019 = \\u2019");
ch.addItem("\u2018 = \\u2018");
ch.addItem("\u2026 = \\u2026");
ch.addItem("\u2013 = \\u2013");
ch.addItem("\u8230 = \\u8230");
TextField e = new TextField("\u2019 = \\u2019 \u2018 = \\u2018 \u2026 = \\u2026 \u2013 = \\u2013 \u8230 = \\u8230");
f.add(e);
f.add(ch);
f.pack();
f.show();
}
}

/* unicode.html */

<script

document.write("\u2019 = \\u2019 \u2018 = \\u2018 \u2026 = \\u2026
\u2013 = \\u2013 \u8230 = \\u8230"); </script>

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Vidhya.

Welcome to JavaRanch.

Which font are you using to display the output?

1. we are not using any font as such to display.

2. Though I tried to change the font to

a) Tahoma
b) Arial Unicode MS and some more fonts

did not displayed the charecters properly.

I'm getting the exact characters that Unicode 4.0.1 says I should get in the 20xx range, and something that looks Chinese for the 82xx character (which I think is strange, because the Unicode standard does not list any characters in the 8xxx range):

This is on OS X, which comes with a lot of fonts preinstalled.
[ April 06, 2007: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

Basing on the Locale of the host OS , it will display some charecters properly but not all charecters.

you can run the java program like

java -Duser.language=en-Duser.country=US -Duser.variant=US TestUnicode

and you may find the garbage values for those charecters.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4628658

I did run it on a US-English system, and as you can see, it's fine. What is a locale that produces junk characters?

I'm not sure what the character for 8230 signifies - there is no such character in the Unicode character set, so I suppose anything is possible. Are you having problems with legitimate characters as well?

From your reply, what I understood is, It will display unicode characters fine in OS (Non - English ) irrespective of locale.

Well Iam using English OS with locale as en_us where it is displaying garbage characters.

\u8230 - is a chinese character.

I have not tried with legitimate characters.