Displaying arabic using j2me

Question

hi every body,
my experience with j2me is very little and i need to display arabic text
i am using eclipse and carbide j1.5
i searched the forum and i found that writing the following should work
String s=new String("arabic_string".getBytes(), "UTF-8");
but when i display s it appears like ????
i used
String en= System.getProperty("microedition.encoding");
String lc= System.getProperty("microedition.locale");
the ecoding is ISO8859-1
and the locale is en or ar according to the setting of the phone language
i am testing on deviced nokia n73 and nokia 6630
i got the same output with the 2 device
urgent help is required plz
and if any body has a sample code that would be great
thanks

Answer 1

salam raghda ,
I am experience with arabic text. i use also eclipse
this is what you need :
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.sql.SQLException;
public class font {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String word_temp="�������";
try {
word_temp = new String(word_temp.getBytes("utf8" ));
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
System.out.println(word_temp);
any help you are welcome
Faraj