ASCII/Unicode Card reprsentation

[James Chegwidden]

I want to print out the ASCII/unicode representation of hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds

instead of saying with strings...
String suits[] = { "Hearts", "Diamonds", "Clubs", "Spades" };
I tried this

String suits[] = { "\u2665", "\u2666", "\u2663", "\u2660" };

when printing I got a ?

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2660/index.htm

I noticed this...string.toUpperCase()
my unicode is rusty...

[James Chegwidden]

Nevermind I got it...wrong Unicode values

[marc weber]

Originally posted by James Chegwidden:
Nevermind I got it...wrong Unicode values

What did you use instead?

The key is finding an application that knows how to interpret these values and display the desired symbol. Consoles (even Mac's Terminal) are generally not good at this. Note, however, that putting your original values into a Swing application should work nicely...

import javax.swing.*;
 
class Suits extends JFrame {
  String suits = "\u2665 \u2666 \u2663 \u2660";
  Suits() {
    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    JLabel label = new JLabel(suits);
    add(label);
    pack();
    setVisible(true);
  }
 
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Suits s = new Suits();
  }
}

[James Chegwidden]

What did you use instead?

Actually I went back to a swing based unicode and the first set worked. Thanks...