Making non-printing characters visible

Hello all,
I am trying to find a method that will make spaces, non-breaking spaces, newlines, tabs, etc have a graphic representataion in rendered text, like the "Show Invisibles" or "Show Codes" features of most word processors. I tried several Google searches but to no avail. Does anyone know if this is possible in Java?

Hi,
There is no such function in Java as far as I know. You have to simulate it yourself. You can compute the advance, etc. using java.awt.font.LineMetrics.

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jvh75021 wrote:
I am working with a VI that invokes a telnet session. The responses come back in multiple line formats. What's a quick way to translate the non-printing characters so I can see what to use for delimiters? Using platform dependent EOL does not work which I expected since this data is coming straight from the UUT.
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Hi,
I was cutting and pasting code from a post
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=54&threadID=766671
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So something else must have been a problem. But
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Welcome to Darwin!
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JavaTester.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected
??/* File: JavaTester.java
^
JavaTester.java:1: illegal character: \731
??/* File: JavaTester.java
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??/* File: JavaTester.java
^
JavaTester.java:1: illegal character: \0
??/* File: JavaTester.java
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^
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??/* File: JavaTester.java
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??/* File: JavaTester.java
^
JavaTester.java:1: illegal character: \0
??/* File: JavaTester.java
^
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^
JavaTester.java:2: illegal character: \0
^
JavaTester.java:2: illegal character: \0
^
JavaTester.java:2: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:3: illegal character: \0
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^
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^
JavaTester.java:3: illegal character: \0
package com.company.javatester.gui;
^
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package com.company.javatester.gui;
^
JavaTester.java:4: illegal character: \0
^
JavaTester.java:4: illegal character: \8224
^
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^
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^
JavaTester.java:5: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:5: illegal character: \0
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^
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^
JavaTester.java:5: illegal character: \0
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
JavaTester.java:7: illegal character: \0
^
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^
JavaTester.java:8: illegal character: \0
^
JavaTester.java:8: illegal character: \0
^
JavaTester.java:8: illegal character: \0
^
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JavaTester.java:9: illegal character: \0
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JavaTester.java:9: illegal character: \0
* A Java testing application. It provides user's with various java related
^
JavaTester.java:9: illegal character: \0
* A Java testing application. It provides user's with various java related
^
JavaTester.java:9: illegal character: \0
* A Java testing application. It provides user's with various java related
^
JavaTester.java:9: illegal character: \0
* A Java testing application. It provides user's with various java related
^
JavaTester.java:9: illegal character: \0
* A Java testing application. It provides user's with various java related
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JavaTester.java:9: illegal character: \0
* A Java testing application. It provides user's with various java related
^
JavaTester.java:9: illegal character: \0
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* A Java testing application. It provides user's with various java related
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^
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^
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JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
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JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
* questions. It can be run as either an applet or an application. If it is
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JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
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JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
* questions. It can be run as either an applet or an application. If it is
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JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:10: illegal character: \0
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^
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JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
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JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
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JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
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JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
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JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
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^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
* run as an applet, then the applet will need to be signed if is to access
^
JavaTester.java:11: illegal character: \0
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^
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Friends,
9.0.1,10.2.0.1
CAn the non-english characters be displayed in sqlplus prompt?
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So i have to do two things
1) On query the tables, the user should see hindi data along with english data.
2) The printed report should also contain hindi data.
Questions:
1) If i change the charcater set by the command:
alter database character set AL32UTF8;
and OS locale to UTF-8
Would these chnages solve the purpose?
2) Or do i need to recreate the database with AL32UTF8 and exp/imp all the data?
3)Any other advice/option?
Thanks

Display non-english characters in its own corresponding language in excel

Hello Experts,
I have description texts in chinese and other languages which is visible properly in the debugger in my internal table.
After downloading the data into an excel sheet into my file path, when opened the non-english description is displayed as ####
Please help me in displaying the non-english descriptions in the excel sheet in its own corresponding language.
Note: Function module used : GUI_DOWNLOAD
File type assigned : 'ASC'
Edited by: keerthi shanker on Mar 14, 2008 11:02 AM

Hello Vasanth,
Please explain about what did you mean by 'Last Button in SAP screen'
Well, to re-iterate my problem, I have data retrieved from SAP database that has values of multi languages which is displaying properly in the internal table as checked in the debugger.
After the execution of FM 'GUI_DOWNLOAD', when i open the file from my desktop, the non-english characters like the chinese and japanese are each character is displaying in HASH symbol.

Predictive text non-English characters to be made ...

I just filled an enhancement request on this feature, please vote for it HERE:
Predictive text non-English characters to be made optional
The story is: while using predictive text for non-English languages (Polish in my case) the dictionary words are grammar correct which include special characters like: ą,ę,ć,ś,ż,ź,ó,ł etc. For texting (SMS) operators count these as 3 characters making a message much longer than it looks. Therefore I can tell you no one uses these characters while texting and people use EN only characters instead a,e,c,s,z,o,l... which makes using the predictive text useless for eg Polish language.
I'd like to have an option to switch using these non-en chars off for predicting text, which is grammatically not correct but in real life that's how people type.
So basically if there's an option to disable lang specific characters I would be getting an example suggestion of 'Prosze' instead of grammatically correct 'Proszę'. 'Prosze' is a 6 character word, 'Proszę' is a 5+3=8 character word. Considering a single SMS message a 300 chars, than it really makes a difference.
Simple solution would be to replace every char ą with a, ć with c, ó with o etc... in each word suggested for the ones who have this option enabled.

HI,
You can write a code in PAI of main screen. there by using loop at screen you can make that field editable or disabled.
Code sample:
loop at screen.
****condition for value check
if screen-name = 'TEXT_EDIT_NAME'
screen-output = 1.
screen-input = 0.
modify screen.
endif.
endloop.
Hope this will help you.

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