Another Hex to Unicode Question

Question

public static void main(String[] args) {
      char ch = (char)Integer.parseInt("672c",16);
      System.out.println(ch);
      System.out.println("木"); //Character meant to show up in Hex - > Unicode print
}According to the other questions and answers that I've read on the forum about changing a string hex into its equivalent Unicode character, what I have there should work. But it doesn't.
I'm not sure if it'll be visible to everyone, but the second println() statement is the character that should be represented from the hex, but when I run the program in console the 1st print statement (Hex-> Unicode) outputs a "?" but the second works fine outputing exactly what I put it as.
Is this a charset problem?
Thanks

Answer 1

By default most consoles print a very timited subset of the available unicode character set. You will have to make sure that they (the consoles) use a font capable of displaying the unicode characters that you wish to display. Since I have never had to do this I can't help you here but the following Swing example shows how it might be done in a Swing or AWT application.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Fred503 extends JPanel
    public Fred503()
        super(new GridLayout(0,2));
        char ch = (char)Integer.parseInt("672c",16);
        String[] fontNames =
            "Kochi Gothic",
            "Kochi Mincho",
            "Baekmuk Dotum",
            "Baekmuk Batang",
            "Baekmuk Gulim",
            "AR PL SungtiL GB",
            "AR PL KaitiM Big5",
            "AR PL KaitiM GB",
        for (int fontIndex = 0; fontIndex < fontNames.length; fontIndex++)
            JLabel label = new JLabel(fontNames[fontIndex] + " : ", JLabel.RIGHT);
            add(label);
            label = new JLabel(Character.toString(ch));
            label.setFont(new Font(fontNames[fontIndex], Font.PLAIN, 20));
            add(label);
    public static void main(String[] args)
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Fred503");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setContentPane(new Fred503());
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
}