Using Unicode symbols

java-programmer, Using Unicode symbols I'm trying to use some of the "Miscellaneous Symbols" from the Unicode
character set in a program but getting absolutely nowhere. Can someone
please point me in the right direction for starters?

Thanks
Jim

java-programmer >> Using Unicode symbols Roedy, What I really want to do is put the 4 playing card symbols in a an
array to be used in several places.

I looked over all of your material (all I knew about) on the web before I
posted and found much useful and important info but not exactly what I
needed.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roedy Green" <email***@***.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Using Unicode symbols

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:47:44 -0400, "Jim Simpson" <email***@***.com>
> wrote or quoted :
>
> >I'm trying to use some of the "Miscellaneous Symbols" from the Unicode
> >character set in a program but getting absolutely nowhere. Can someone
> >please point me in the right direction for starters?
>
> Your big problem is to find a font that supports them.
>
> A task for someone is to start cataloging fonts with which subsets of
> Unicode they support, or perhaps for difficult characters, what your
> font choices are.
>
> Try Tahoma. You might look at the sizes of the various font files and
> start looking in the fattest ones.
>
> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/font.html
>
> --
> Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
> Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

"Roedy Green" <email***@***.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:47:44 -0400, "Jim Simpson" <email***@***.com>
> wrote or quoted :
>
> >I'm trying to use some of the "Miscellaneous Symbols" from the Unicode
> >character set in a program but getting absolutely nowhere. Can someone
> >please point me in the right direction for starters?
>
> Your big problem is to find a font that supports them.
>
> A task for someone is to start cataloging fonts with which subsets of
> Unicode they support, or perhaps for difficult characters, what your
> font choices are.
>
> Try Tahoma. You might look at the sizes of the various font files and
> start looking in the fattest ones.
>
> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/font.html
>
> --
> Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
> Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

java-programmer >> Using Unicode symbols Thanks Roedy for all your efforts. I'll go to work on the problem but no
doubt it will take a while. I'm very slow writing code and very new at Java
so I may be back here from time to time looking for help. Maybe someone else
will give it a try and beat me to the finish line.

Jim

"Roedy Green" <email***@***.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 21:06:59 GMT, Roedy Green <email***@***.com>
> wrote or quoted :
>
> >
> >A slightly simpler to write utility which would have other uses, just
> >lets you select the font from a list of all possible supported fonts,
> >the displays it in a TextField The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
> >dog's back. In addition you could use a NumberSpinner to select a
> >single unicode value that would displayed as well.
>
> I have written the project up as a student project. See
> http://mindprod.com/projfontfinder.html for the spec.
>
> --
> Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
> Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.