how to display special characters

[priya pratheepp]

I am doing one program which read serial port data (for bar code reader) using java application.

My program is working well and reading serial data but it is not displaying special characters.When i read through hyperterminal i can see all special characters but when see data throught the output of java program these special characters are missing...

I don't know i am doing something wrong in stream or ???

My code is

code:
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public void serialEvent(SerialPortEvent event) {System.out.println("before serialEvent");StringBuffer readBuffer1 = new StringBuffer(); switch (event.getEventType()) {case SerialPortEvent.OUTPUT_BUFFER_EMPTY:System.out.println("Data empty:");break;case SerialPortEvent.DATA_AVAILABLE:   byte[] readBuffer = new byte[100];   int r = 0;   try {   System.out.print("test");      //t inputStream = serialPort.getInputStream();        while((r = inputStream.read(readBuffer)) != -1) {         System.out.print(new String(readBuffer, 0, r));     }   } catch (Exception e) {      e.printStackTrace(System.out);   }}}}
 
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Please help

thanks

[Campbell Ritchie]

Please make sure to put newline or enter when you are quoting code, otherwise it can get hard to read.

Different fonts vary in which characters they can display; try this Wikipedia page. Whichever font is used on the Windows command prompt has a very restricted range of characters, so even � won't display correctly, whilst the shells on Linux desktops will display all sorts of odd characters. So check which font and display you are using first.

[Ilja Preuss]

See http://www.coderanch.com/t/385391/java/java/serial-port-reading