UTF16 characters not printed properly on console

[jatan bhavsar]

Hi All,

I have generated UTf16 characters from native2ascii and trying to print that characters in specific language,this is for english. but its dosent give proper output.

                                 String unicodeMessage="\u5365\u7276\u6963\u6573";  //equls to service
		 System.setOut(new PrintStream(System.out, true, "utf-16")); 
		 PrintStream out1 = new PrintStream(System.out, true, "UTF-16");     
		 out1.println(unicodeMessage); 

it prints þÿServices and sqaure which is not proper .Please any one can guide me how can i achieve this.. I tried with eclipse console encoding as well.

Regards
Jatan

[Jesper de Jong]

You can only print characters that exist in the font that is being used. If your Windows command prompt uses a font that doesn't contain the characters you want to display, then you get question marks or empty squares instead of the characters. Besides that, I'm not sure if the Windows command prompt has other limitations so that those characters can't be displayed, even if you use a font that has them.