[simon steiner]

Does someone know how to print Unicode characters in the terminal from a java application.

This prints out a ? instead of a £.

//Prints out pound sign

public class Test
{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
System.out.println("\u00A3") ;
}
}

ive followed the Configuring Terminal to display high-bit characters in terminal help and googled. i get this on different machines running 10.3.

[Kristoff]

Terminal.app doesn't support unicode output AFAIK.

Run your app in XTerm (supplied with Apple's X11) and it works fine.

[Kristoff]

Ok, I lied (kinda).


Go to Terminal.app, Window Settings, Display, Character Encoding

Now, if you select UTF-8 (as common sense would dictate) it wont work.
But, if you select Western (ISO Latin 1) it works fine and indeed shows the £.

[simon steiner]

brilliant, you rock.