Problem with Japanese Characters.

[Gaurav Mac Mathur]

Hi all,
I need to read some Japanese characters from a Flat file and dispaly it on UI,
now i write a Japanese character and convert it to Ascii ( using nativetoascii ). so i get a lot of / u stuff.... but when i am reading from this FF and trying to display it on UI i see / u things insteed of Japanese Characters,
any pointers where am i missing something?
Regards
Gaurav
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[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

The purpose of nativetoascii is to let you write code using native character sets, then translate it to ASCII for compilation. The "javac" compiler needs non-ASCII characters to be escaped.
But Java's I/O system can read the native characters directly (otherwise nativetoascii, written in Java itself, wouldn't work, right?) Data files don't need to be run through nativetoascii, and in fact, the \u0000 escape sequences don't mean anything to Java's I/O system, only to the compiler.
So don't translate your file before reading it. If Java can't seem to read it correctly unchanged, then you may need to fiddle with character set encodings, but you shouldn't need to modify the data file itself.

[Thomas Paul]

The Swing UI is designed to take unicode characters and display them correctly as long as the proper font is installed. As Ernest pointed out, you don't need nativetoascii to get this to work.