Re: Help with unicode from string.

Hi,
I use the following code to translate english words in my app. The code
accesses an external file for the translations.

External file looks something like this..

-------

File
----
File
Archivo
"\u03A6"+"\u03AC"+"\u03BA"+"\u03B5"+"\u03BB"+"\u03BB"+"\u03BF"+"\u03C2"
x1
x2
x3

-------

They are words for "File" in English, spannish, greek.

The code I use is something like this to acces it.

            JMenu menuFile = new JMenu();
            menuFile.setText(translateEnglish("File"));
            menuBar.add(menuFile);
...
...

//=================================
//T r a n s l a t e E n g l i s h
//=================================
public String translateEnglish(String englishWord){
  String translatedWord = "";
  translatedWord =
(Miscellaneous.translateEnglishDataFromExternalFile(englishWord,"languages/multilanguages.dat"));

return translatedWord;
}

However I get all the unicodes and not the greek characters. If I do
something like this

menuFile.setText("\u03A6"+"\u03AC"+"\u03BA"+"\u03B5"+"\u03BB"+"\u03BB"+"\u03BF"+"\u03C2");

directly... then all works fine. But I must grab this from the external
file!

Any solutions welcomed. BTW, I'm not experienced enough yet to use
Internationalization just yet which is why I'm going with this for the
moment.

Please help if you can

Thanks, Tane
real email: t a n e @ m u g w h y . c o m