Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows

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On 7/22/2012 5:47 AM, Philip Brown wrote:

Could someone who knows about these things, and is currently running
ms-windows, please take a moment to download the program and verify


I don't download code, as a rule. Can you produce a simple, short,
complete, compilable example that prints a few characters from the range
you are interested in, and post the source here? That I will look at.

Contrariwise, if you still think it's my program that is broken:
please provide a java program that I can freely download and run,


This works for me:

package quicktest;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

/**
  *
  * @author Brenden
  */
public class UpperCodepoint {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
       SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
          public void run() {
             StringBuilder stb = new StringBuilder();
             stb.appendCodePoint(0x20FF0);
             JFrame frame = new JFrame();
             JTextArea ta = new JTextArea();
             frame.add(ta);
             ta.setText(stb.toString());

             frame.pack();
             frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
             frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
             frame.setSize(500, 500);
             frame.setVisible(true);
          }
       });

    }
}

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