Character array of primitive elements initialization

[Shiva Mohan]

Hi,

key[0]=128;
key[1]=32765;
key[2]='Z';
key[3]=65535;

It is giving the output ? ? Z ?. I thought,byte and short types are implicitly conver to char.It converted.But Why,It is giving ? for everything.Is char arrays,using ASCII codes for numbers from 0 to 127.What about the numbers from 128 to 65535.Please share your knowledge.

Thanks,
Shiva

[Rusty Shackleford]

For character values outside of the ascii range, you will likely get jibberish, unless you specify a locale

[Shiva Mohan]

Thank you for your reply.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I know it wasn't all that helpful. Here is a link that might be more useful then my vague blathering http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/fontprop.html.

There are some good tutorials at java.sun.com, a search should help you out if you need to display other types of characters.

[Vlado Zajac]

The characters outside 0-127 range are converted to ? by PrintStream's print method.

You can either use a Writer to convert the characters to correct encoding or DataOutputStream to write the 2-byte value or char.

If you want to print the value as a number (with PrintStream), than cast it to int.

System.out.println((int)key[0]);