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Java Forum / General / September 2006Is java internationalized by design or it isn't?
I just used Marti Halls simple java based very simple Browser to check out how it would render non-ASCII based languages and formulas, but all I could see was the funny little boxes java shows you when it can not print characters . I tried as examples . // __ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/basics.xhtml . // __ http://www.xoops.cn/ . What do you have to do to make this simple Browser properly display these characters? DO you know of any other java based Browser that can do that? . onetitfemme > What do you have to do to make this simple Browser properly display > these characters? DO you know of any other java based Browser that can > do that? I don't know the program, but it's not only the application but the font you use for displaying the characters. If the font in use don't contain the characters they are often shown as boxes (Java would replace them by ?, if there would be problems with the encoding being used for reading/writing the characters). So in the first place you should switch to a font, that contains the complete Unicode-set. Regards, Lothar  SignatureLothar Kimmeringer E-Mail: spamfang@kimmeringer.de PGP-encrypted mails preferred (Key-ID: 0x8BC3CD81) Always remember: The answer is forty-two, there can only be wrong questions! well actually I think it is an oversight from the developers thinking they can cast all web pages as ASCII ones. . Something that I found a little bit odd is that when I tried to view say CHinese pages using JBrowser (www.bysoft.se/sureshot/jbrowser/) which content type were tagged as: . <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> . you could see chinese characters showing on the window bar of the java/Swing WIndow (the exact same ones showing on Firefox and on the "title" tag in the source), but the java app is not displaying actual chinese chars . http://juyou.linktone.com/default.lt . I think the String class' UTF-8 based ctor should be used and probably the JTextPanes need some extra UTF-8 tweaking . http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#String(byte[],%20i nt,%20int,%20java.lang.String) . otf > well actually I think it is an oversight from the developers thinking > they can cast all web pages as ASCII ones. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > . > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#String(byte[],%20i nt,%20int,%20java.lang.String) FWIW, I've written a Java application that can display Chinese characters just fine (it's actually a flashcard-like tool for learning Japanese), and I didn't have to do anything special. Java supports Unicode (the basic multilingual plane part of it, anyway, which include Chinese/Japanese/Korean) by design. - Oliver > I've written a Java application that can display Chinese characters just fine ... otf: you have ... . > Java supports Unicode otf: Does it? ... . I was clearly speaking about opening -non-ASCII pages- in basic, java-based Browsers. otf >> I've written a Java application that can display Chinese characters just >> fine ... [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > java-based Browsers. > otf Sorry, I had somehow gotten the impression you were speaking about whether java is internationalized by design or not. - Oliver Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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