Displaying certain characters?

Hey I'm just trying to program some playing card games. At the moment the cards are just represented textually. For example the 4 of Clubs is "4c". I would like to use ♥ ♦ ♣ and ♠ (ascii equivalents 3 4 5 and 6), but when I run the program they are just output as "?". I'm using Netbeans 5.5 to compile and run right now. Do I need to include a specific package or update something, or is it just not possible.

Normally I wouldn't say this, but you might be better off going right to the GUI.
It's pretty trivial to make a card object with an associated image, that you can display on a window during gameplay.
Also there are images of decks of cards, etc., on the net that can be downloaded easily (and it's not that hard to make an image of a deck of cards programmatically either).

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