char value

class A{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
char c='\u123';
System.out.println(c);
}
}

output:
?

why does it gives the above output??
and how can i print the unicode value for a given character???
thanks

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[ August 13, 2008: Message edited by: Sagar Rohankar ]

I think perhaps it gives a ? because u123 is an invalid Unicode character. At least, I'm getting that error in Eclipse. Have a look here for a good Unicode table.

http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/unicode.html

(The page may take some time to load so be patient)

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[ August 13, 2008: Message edited by: Campbell Ritchie ]

<a href=http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/unicode.html
]http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/unicode.html>http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/unicode.html
]http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/unicode.html</a>

If you look it up in Unicode (look for file U0100.pdf), you find it says this:

ģ
0123 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH CEDILLA
� Latvian
� there are three major glyph variants
≡ 0067 g 0327 $̧

And when I tried it on a Bash shell (Linux) I got this output:

javac Print123.java
campbell@linux-pgix:~/java> java Print123
ģ
campbell@linux-pgix:~/java>

So the problem might be that your terminal window won't support all the Unicode characters; I find Windows or DOS often fails to print non-ASCII characters.

thanks for the above refrences and can you please tell me if there is a method through which i may be able to print the unicode values of characters??

By the way, it's not '\u123' but '\0123'. '\u123' doesn't seem to compile. I knew to try \u0123 first, but in future, please Post Real Code with ctrl-c ctrl-v.

It works nicely on Eclipse when you have 4 (hexadecimal) numbers after the \u. That's the problem.

Look at the Integer class. It has methods to convert int to hex.
Then prepend the \u with some 00s to it.

well i even tried '\u0123' but it still prints ?
maybe windows do not support the char
even if i say '\u0000' it doesnt print a 0, it simply doesnt prints anything.
so what do we do if theres such a question in the exam that asks for the output
it seems to be implementation dependent

I have already told you Windows/DOS tends not to support non-ASCII characters; I have sometimes had problems with characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff.

And '\u0000' isn't "0"; it is the null character, so you wouldn't expect anything to appear.

ok thankyou

You're welcome