"Knute Johnson" <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote in message
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Thomas Fritsch wrote:
"Knute Johnson" <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote:
Oliver Wong wrote:
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Additionally, rather than using a special font that maps musical
symbols to other characters, consider using the Unicode characters
specifically designed for this purpose:
Western Musical Symbols: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
Byzantine Musical Symbols:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D000.pdf
Ancient Greek Musical Symbols:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D200.pdf
Oliver:
How do you represent a unicode value greater than 16 bits in a string?
"\u1D100" doesn't work.
new String(new int[] { 0x1D100 }, 0, 1)
Since Java 1.5 the String and Character class have some methods for
dealing with int-codepoints instead of just chars.
See also the API doc of String and Character (especially the methods
with "codePoint" in their name).
Thomas and John:
Thanks for the pointers. I've tried making Strings or char[] but
still cannot get them to display the supplemental characters. Is
there an issue with the font that I choose? Can you give me another
hint?
Font files are basically a collection of glyphs (drawings, if you
prefer) that the OS can use to paint on screen or on a printer to
visually represent the String data that you wish to display. The vast
majority of fonts I've seen do NOT have glyphs for every possible
Unicode character.
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html is a handy reference to
find out which fonts have glyphs for what characters, and also allows
you to test your system to see if it can display certain characters.
- Oliver
Thanks very much for the Alan Wood web site. There is a lot of
interesting info there. I used the CODE2001 font to display the musical