Re: Unicodes

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:09:01 GMT
Message-ID:
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"freesoft_2000" <freesoft_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:694a0d4fa56235c405c5471898d30f05@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com...

Hi everyone,

            I am trying to insert some unicode into a JTextPane document
but i have a concern as to whether the unicode will be recognized on other
platform besides windows.

            This is what i did

StyledDocument.insertString(TextPane.getCaretPosition(),"\u25CF" + " ",
null);

Will my above code be recognised on other platforms besides windows
because of the unicode that i am inserting?


    Unicode, like ASCII, is a platform independent standard. Individual
platforms may or may not implement Unicode support, but given how popular it
is, probably any platform which doesn't support it would be considered a
"toy" instead of a serious platform. Linux, MacOSX and Windows all provide
unicode support.

    The only issue you'd have to worry about is whether the platform has a
font which can display the glyph representing the character you've inserted.
Worst case, you can always supply a font with your application.

    - Oliver

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