Unicode Characters in Label/JLabels
Hi All,
Does anyone know how when any unicode characters within a String get transformed into the character they represent? I ask because I'm getting conflicting behaviour depending on whether the String is hard-coded or read from file at runtime.
For instance, the following code works fine and produces a label on the GUI containing the infinity character:
String name = "100 to \u221E";
JLabel label = new JLabel(name);
However, if <name> is read from an XML file, the label produced shows "100 to \u221E" verbatim.
Has anyone else seen this effect?
Thanks in advance for any advice,
Andy Chamberlain
Thanks for that. If I understand correctly, is it
therefore the case that by the time the JLabel
constructor gets called, the String object ("name", in
this case) already has any unicode characters
encoded within it?
Exactly. The compiled .class file already has the unicode characters in it; JLabel has nothing to do with it.
If so, then when debugging, any such characters must
get decoded again back to ASCII when the value of
"name" is inspected within the debugger environment
(JDeveloper in this case).
Depends on the unicode-awareness of JDeveloper; I don't know anything about it.
And the finger would certainly then point to when the
String was created by the XML parser (I'm using
org.dom4j.io.SAXReader). I'll investigate this
further.If you have a text editor that can save a file in UTF-8, you could try saving the xml with the infinity symbol as plain text and specify the encoding of the file with <?xml encoding='UTF-8'?>... Or does your parser accept the &#some-decimal-number; way?
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import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
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import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
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import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
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import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Button;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
//import javax.swing.JTextPane;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.DefaultListModel;
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import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPopupMenu;
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import java.io.BufferedReader;
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sendTextPanel.add(sendButton);
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thereforeButton.setLabel("\u2234");
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textField.setEditable(true);
out.println("LISTUSERS");
sendButton.setEnabled(true);
//messageArea.setEnabled(true);
} else if (line.startsWith("SUBMITPASSWORD")) {
out.println(getPassword());
} else if (line.startsWith("GRANTEDADMIN")) {
isAdmin = true;
//disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.setEnabled(true);
disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.setVisible(true);
disconnectAllUsersPopupMenuItem.setVisible(true);
} else if (line.startsWith("DISCONNECT")) {
sendButton.setEnabled(false);
return;
} else if (line.startsWith("USERLIST")) {
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(line.substring(8), " ");
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
usersHashSet.add(st.nextToken());
listModel.removeAllElements();
for (Iterator i = usersHashSet.iterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
listModel.addElement(i.next());
} else if (line.startsWith("USERJOIN")) {
String userJoinName = line.substring(8).trim();
usersHashSet.add(userJoinName);
listModel.addElement(userJoinName);
} else if (line.startsWith("USERQUIT")) {
String userQuitName = line.substring(8).trim();
usersHashSet.remove(userQuitName);
listModel.removeElement(userQuitName);
} else if (line.startsWith("MESSAGE")) {
messageArea.setFont(new Font("Lucida Sans", Font.PLAIN, 12));
messageArea.append(line.substring(8) + "\n");
catch (Exception e) {
//e.printStackTrace();
return;
* Runs the client as an application with a closeable frame.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
ChatClient client = new ChatClient();
client.frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
client.frame.setLocation(200, 100);
client.frame.show();
client.run();
class messageAreaPopupListener extends MouseAdapter {
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
maybeShowPopup(e);
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
maybeShowPopup(e);
private void maybeShowPopup(MouseEvent e) {
if (e.isPopupTrigger()) {
messageAreaPopupMenu.show(e.getComponent(),
e.getX(), e.getY());
class userAreaPopupListener extends MouseAdapter {
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
maybeShowPopup(e);
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
maybeShowPopup(e);
private void maybeShowPopup(MouseEvent e) {
if (e.isPopupTrigger()) {
userAreaPopupMenu.show(e.getComponent(),
e.getX(), e.getY());Yes, the code is large, isn't it. It is a good idea, when you have a problem you can't solve, to remove unnecessary code. When the problem disappears, then you know the code you just removed was probably the source of the problem.
But in your case, I think that none of the 1000 lines of code you posted are the problem. You appear to be using Lucida Sans, which is a positive sign; it can render many of the characters you have hard-coded in your program. But apparently the problem is with characters that are coming from somewhere else? And you are using a PrintWriter to send them there and a BufferedReader to get them back? These convert your data from characters to bytes and back again using the default encoding for your system. Chances are that this encoding is some "extended ASCII" encoding that doesn't know how to map anything above \u00ff. You need to get an InputStreamReader and an OutputStreamWriter into your transmission. (Wrap your socket.getInputStream() in an InputStreamReader and wrap that in a BufferedReader, etc.) These objects can take an encoding name as their second parameter; try "UTF-8" or "UTF8" for the encoding. Their API documentation has a link to a page about encodings; follow that if you need more info. -
Oracle Discoverer Desktop Report output showing unicode characters
Hi,
Oracle Discoverer Desktop 4i version Report output showing the below unicode characters.
kara¿ah L¿MAK HOLD¿NG A.¿
We ran the same query in sql at that time the data showing correctly.
Please let me know, is there any language settings/ NLS settings are need to set
Thanks in Advance.Hi
Let me give you some background. In the Windows registy, every Oracle Home has a setting called NLS_LANG. This is the variable that controls, among other things, the numeric characters and the language used. The variable is made up of 3 parts. These are:
language_territory.characterset
Notice how there is an underscore character between the first two variables and a period between the last two. This is very important and must not be changed.
So, for example, most American settings look like this: AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252
The second variable, the territory, controls the default date, monetary, and numeric formats and must correspond to the name of a country. So if I wanted to use the Greek settings for numeric formatting, editing the NLS_LANG for Discoverer Desktop to this setting will do the trick:
AMERICAN_GREECE.WE8MSWIN1252
Can you please check your settings? Here's a workflow:
a) Open up your registry by running Regedit
b) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE
c) Look for the Oracle Home corresponding to where Discoverer Desktop is installed. It's probably called KEY_BIToolsHome_1
d) Clicking on the Oracle Home will display all of the variables
e) Take a look at the variable called NLS_LANG - if it is correct Exit the registry
f) If its not correct please right-click on it and from the pop-up select Modify
f) Change the variable to the right setting
g) Click the OK button to save your change
h) Exit the registry
Best wishes
Michael -
CRVS2010 Beta - Cannot export report to PDF with unicode characters
My report has some unicode data (Chinese), it can be previewed properly in the windows form report viewer. However, if I export the report document to PDF file, the unicode characters in exported file are all displayed as a square.
In the version of Crystal Report 2008 R2, it can export the Chinese characters to PDF when I select a Chinese font in report. But VS2010 beta cannot export the Chinese characters even a Chinese font is selected.Barry, what is the specific font you are using?
The below is a reformatted response from Program Management:
Using non-Chinese font with Unicode characters (Chinese) the issue is reproducible when using Arial font in Unicode characters field. After changing the Unicode character to Simsun (A Chinese font named 宋体 in report), the problem is solved in Cortez and CR both.
Ludek -
How do I get unicode characters out of an oracle.xdb.XMLType in Java?
The subject says it all. Something that should be simple and error free. Here's the code...
String xml = new String("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<x>\u2026</x>\n");
XMLType xmlType = new XMLType(conn, xml);
conn is an oci8 connection.
How do I get the original string back out of xmlType? I've tried xmlType.getClobVal() and xmlType.getString() but these change my \u2026 to 191 (question mark). I've tried xmlType.getBlobVal(CharacterSet.UNICODE_2_CHARSET).getBytes() (and substituted CharacterSet.UNICODE_2_CHARSET with a number of different CharacterSet values), but while the unicode characters are encoded correctly the blob returned has two bytes cut off the end for every unicode character contained in the original string.
I just need one method that actually works.
I'm using Oracle release 11.1.0.7.0. I'd mention NLS_LANG and file.encoding, but I'm setting the PrintStream I'm using for output explicitly to UTF-8 so these shouldn't, I think, have any bearing on the question.
Thanks for your time.
Stryder, aka RalphI created analogic test case, and executed it with DB 11.1.0.7 (Linux x86), which seems to work fine.
Please refer to the execution procedure below:
* I used AL32UTF8 database.
1. Create simple test case by executing the following SQL script from SQL*Plus:
connect / as sysdba
create user testxml identified by testxml;
grant connect, resource to testxml;
connect testxml/testxml
create table testtab (xml xmltype) ;
insert into testtab values (xmltype('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'||chr(10)||'<x>'||unistr('\2026')||'</x>'||chr(10)));
-- chr(10) is a linefeed code.
commit;
2. Create QueryXMLType.java as follows:
import java.sql.*;
import oracle.sql.*;
import oracle.jdbc.*;
import oracle.xdb.XMLType;
import java.util.*;
public class QueryXMLType
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception, SQLException
DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
OracleConnection conn = (OracleConnection) DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:oci8:@localhost:1521:orcl", "testxml", "testxml");
OraclePreparedStatement stmt = (OraclePreparedStatement)conn.prepareStatement("select xml from testtab");
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery();
OracleResultSet orset = (OracleResultSet) rs;
while (rs.next())
XMLType xml = XMLType.createXML(orset.getOPAQUE(1));
System.out.println(xml.getStringVal());
rs.close();
stmt.close();
3. Compile QueryXMLType.java and execute QueryXMLType.class as follows:
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export CLASSPATH=.:$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/ojdbc5.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/orai18n.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib/xdb.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/lib/xmlparserv2.jar
javac QueryXMLType.java
java QueryXMLType
-> Then you will see U+2026 character (horizontal ellipsis) is properly output.
My Java code came from "Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1) Part Number B28369-04" with some modification of:
- Example 14-1 XMLType Java: Using JDBC to Query an XMLType Table
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28369/xdb11jav.htm#i1033914
and
- Example 18-23 Using XQuery with JDBC
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28369/xdb_xquery.htm#CBAEEJDE -
Insert Unicode Characters Into Oracle 8.1.5
Hello,
First off, here are the specs:
Oracle 8.1.5
JDK 1.2.1
Oracle8i 8.1.6.2.0 JDBC Drivers for use with JDK 1.2.x for Solaris
I'm running into a problem with insert Unicode characters into Oracle via the JDBC driver. As you can see above, I am using the Oracle 8.1.6.2.0 JDBC driver because it is the first driver with supports the JDK 1.2.x. So I think I should be okay.
I can retrieve data with special characters from Oracle by calling the getBytes() method from the ResultSet with all special characters being intact. I am using getBytes because calling getString() would throw the following exception: "java.sql.SQLException(): Fail to convert between UTF8 and UCS2: failUTF8Conv". However, with that value that I just retrieved, or any other data with special characters (unicode) in which I try to insert into Oracle does not get converted properly.
What appears to be happening is that data with special characters (unicode), are not being treated as a single double byte character, but rather two single byte characters. Thus, R|ckschlagventil becomes RC<ckschlagventil once it is inserted. (Hopefully, my example will be rendered properly).
According to all documentation that I have found, the JDBC driver should not have any problem with converting UCS2 Java Strings to Oracle's UTF8 character set.
I have set Oracle's NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET to UTF8. I am also setting the environment variable NLS_LANG to AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8. Perhaps there is some other environment setting in which I am missing?
Any help would be appreciated,
Christian
nullImport has a lot of options, so it depends on what you want to do.
C:\> imp help=y
will show you all possible options. An example of full import :
C:\> imp <username>/<password>@<TNS alias> file=<DMP file> full=y log=<LOG file>
Message was edited by:
Paul M.
...and there is always [url http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/F49540_01/DOC/index.htm]The documentation -
Scanning files for non-unicode characters.
Question: I have a web application that allows users to take data, enter it into a webapp, and generate an xml file on the servers filesystem containing the entered data. The code to this application cannot be altered (outside vendor). I have a second webapp, written by yours truly, that has to parse through these xml files to build a dataset used elsewhere.
Unfortunately I'm having a serious problem. Many of the web applications users are apparently cutting and pasting their information from other sources (frequently MS Word) and in the process are embedding non-unicode characters in the XML files. When my application attempts to open these files (using DocumentBuilder), I get a SAXParseException "Document root element is missing".
I'm sure others have run into this sort of thing, so I'm trying to figure out the best way to tackle this problem. Obviously I'm going to have to start pre-scanning the files for invalid characters, but finding an efficient method for doing so has proven to be a challenge. I can load the file into a String array and search it character per character, but that is both extremely slow (we're talking thousands of LONG XML files), and would require that I predefine the invalid characters (so anything new would slip through).
I'm hoping there's a faster, easier way to do this that I'm just not familiar with or have found elsewhere.require that I predefine the invalid charactersThis isn't hard to do and it isn't subject to change. The XML recommendation tells you here exactly what characters are valid in XML documents.
However if your problems extend to the sort of case where users paste code including the "&" character into a text node without escaping it properly, or they drop in MS Word "smart quotes" in the incorrect encoding, then I think you'll just have to face up to the fact that allowing naive users to generate uncontrolled wannabe-XML documents is not really a viable idea. -
The JSP WYSIWYG Editor can't display most Unicode characters
Eclipse supports display of Unicode characters very well since version 3. However, NitroX couldn't display most most of them. Well, besides characters from other non-Western European languages, NitroX can't even display characters that it's supposed to support. Well, that's what I think so. I mean, when we type the & character, we have the whole list of character entity references amongst which we could find ∧ ∇ ∨ → but which are not displayed correctly. And many more are in this case.
Is this a feature or a bug? By "feature", it means that we can't get them in free version.I have exactly the same problem. I support web pages for 25 European countries. I've not seen Nitrox support any unicode characters. Until M7 answers this question or fixes the editor, you can use the Eclipse editor to see and edit the text.
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Is there a list of Unicode characters that can be used in Acrobat bookmarks?
I can add Greek characters to Acrobat bookmarks using hexadecimal strings. For example, to print a lower case gamma symbol I use <FEFF03B3>. FEFF is the required Unicode flag and 03B3 is the Unicode code for gamma. This works fine. However, there are no Unicode entries for greek characters in the PDF 32000-1:2008 PDF Specification manual. Table D.2 - PDFDocEncoding Character Set on page 656 lists Unicode characters and these also work when added to bookmarks but no Greek codes are in this table. Since I can sucessfully use Greek Unicode characters in the range of 0x0391 - 0x03CE and these characters are not listed in the PDF manual I am assuming there are additional Unicode character that will work in bookmarks. Therefore, I am looking for a complete list of Unicode characters that can be used in Acrobat's bookmarks. Does such a list exist?
Thank you for the response.
I'm sorry to hear there is no list available. I'm building the Acrobat bookmarks automatically. The input data contains entity codings (for example, a lower case Greek gamma is coded as γ) and I was hoping to be able to just pass these through with an automatic conversion to a hexadecimal string (for example <FEFF03B3>). If I had a list of valid Unicode characters, that will display in an Acrobat bookmark, I could validate each entity before the conversion and catch the ones that won't display correctly. I know these types of characters are out there because I have already come across them. For example, a superscript 5 (0x2075) displays fine in MSWord but shows as a white box in a bookmark. Now I'll need to proof the output PDFs and look for white boxes in the bookmarks so that I can build my list of unicode characters that do not work in Acrobat bookmarks.
Again, thanks for your help.
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