extended-ascii

For example System.out.println("╚"); displays as a ?, same goes for System.out.println("\u255a"); Why doesn't this work? Stdout does indeed support these characters so I don't get it. Josh Lee See this question . When Java’s default character encoding is not UTF-8 — as is the case, it seems, on Windows and OS X, but not Linux — then characters which fail to encode are converted to question marks. You can pass the correct switch ( -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 on some terminals, but I don’t have a Windows box in front of me) to the JVM’s command line, or you can set an environment variable. Portably

What are the difficulties inherent in ASCII and Extended ASCII and how these difficulties are overcome by Unicode? Can some one explain me the unicode compatibility? And what does the terms associated with Unicode like Planes, Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), Suplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP), Suplementary Ideographic Plane (SIP), Supplementary Special Plane (SSP) and Private Use Planes (PUP) means. I have found all these words very confusing ASCII ASCII was less or more the first character encoding ever. At the ages when a byte was very expensive and 1MHz was extremely fast, only the

The problem: I have two fixed width strings from an external system. The first contains the base characters (like a-z), the second (MAY) contain diacritics to be appended to the first string to create the actual characters. string asciibase = "Dutch has funny chars: a,e,u"; string diacrits = " ' \" \""; //no clue what to do string result = "Dutch has funny chars: á,ë,ü"; I could write a massive search and replace for all characters + different diacritics but was hoping for something a bit more elegant. Somebody have a clue how to fix this one? Tried it with calculating the decimal values,

public static void main(String[] args) { int i=153; int j=63; System.out.println((char)i); System.out.println((char)j); } OUTPUT:- ? ? I have some ideas why is this strange output.. But can anyone give me some idea so that i can print the extended ASCIIs as well.. ASCII 153 ( 0x99 ) is different from Unicode U+0099 (Control character). Solution This program should do what you intend it to do: public class ExtendedAscii { public static final char[] EXTENDED = { 0x00C7, 0x00FC, 0x00E9, 0x00E2, 0x00E4, 0x00E0, 0x00E5, 0x00E7, 0x00EA, 0x00EB, 0x00E8, 0x00EF, 0x00EE, 0x00EC, 0x00C4, 0x00C5, 0x00C9,