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Hello, i have bought a book "Head First Java" 2nd edition, and I liked it very much.
I written my first program as the book said, but I got this strange thing.

I think that's because of russian letters, but when i'm using english letters, I don't have this problem.


Thanks for helping!
 
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Welcome to the Ranch

I edited your program to remove the long lines which make the code hard to read. I didn't correct your indentation; line 21 sh‍ould be two lines, for example. We always use English. I got a translation of your code from Google translate and it looks like the PhraseOMatic I remember from the book. Also copy‑and‑paste output because it is easier to read than a screenshot.
I tried your code and got:-

java PhraseOMatic
Всё, что вам нужно, - это 30000-футовый распределённый выход из положения

I am using Linux. I think you have a problem with the Windows terminal, which is notorious for only displaying a small range of characters. Maybe it is not set to accept Cyrillic writing. You are probably not using a computer with Russian as its default language. Try this instead of the print call in line 20:-
javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
      "Всё, что вам нужно, - это " + phrase);

See what appears on the option pane. I think that will correct your problem
 
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Thanks for replying!
That's right, it's PhraseOMatic from the book.
I already had Russian as default language.
I tried to use your new argument for printing phrase, but it didn't resolve the problem.
I'm using J2SE Development Kit 5.0 Update 15, which is old version. If I update it to newest version, can it resolve the problem?
 
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Forgot to mention that program on your computer worked properly.
 
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Rich McStone wrote:Thanks for replying!

That's a pleasure

. . . I tried to use your new argument for printing phrase, but it didn't resolve the problem.

Please show us exactly what code you used with option pane and explain what went wrong.

I'm using J2SE Development Kit 5.0 Update 15, which is old version. If I update it to newest version, can it resolve the problem?

You oughtn't to have that problem with Java5, nor with Windows® if you have Russian locale set. You may need to dig deeper to find the problem. Try the following code unchanged:-This will tell you where the numbers come from. You shou‍ld get this sort of output:-

javac RussianLetters.java
java RussianLetters
0x0430 = 'а'    0x0431 = 'б'    0x0432 = 'в'    0x0433 = 'г'    0x0434 = 'д'    
0x0435 = 'е'    0x0436 = 'ж'    0x0437 = 'з'    0x0438 = 'и'    0x0439 = 'й'    
0x043a = 'к'    0x043b = 'л'    0x043c = 'м'    0x043d = 'н'    0x043e = 'о'    
0x043f = 'п'    0x0440 = 'р'    0x0441 = 'с'    0x0442 = 'т'    0x0443 = 'у'    
0x0444 = 'ф'    0x0445 = 'х'    0x0446 = 'ц'    0x0447 = 'ч'    0x0448 = 'ш'    
0x0449 = 'щ'    0x044a = 'ъ'    0x044b = 'ы'    0x044c = 'ь'    0x044d = 'э'    
0x044e = 'ю'    0x044f = 'я'    

Now change the code to read this:-You sho‍uld get the same output. If you get anything different with either version please tell us.
 
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Please show us exactly what you used...



Here's the code



That's the code, and output was exactly the same as first time with the same problem.

...explain what went wrong.



Nothing changed, same problem

You sho‍uld get the same output. If you get anything different with either version please tell us.



First program worked as it has to, without any errors

Second program didn't even compile:

B:\Users\Desktop>javac RussianLetters2.java
RussianLetters2.java:5: unclosed character literal
       for (char c = '╨░'; c <= '╤П'; c++)
                     ^
RussianLetters2.java:5: illegal character: \176
       for (char c = '╨░'; c <= '╤П'; c++)
                       ^
RussianLetters2.java:5: unclosed character literal
       for (char c = '╨░'; c <= '╤П'; c++)
                        ^
RussianLetters2.java:5: unclosed character literal
       for (char c = '╨░'; c <= '╤П'; c++)
                                ^
RussianLetters2.java:5: unclosed character literal
       for (char c = '╨░'; c <= '╤П'; c++)
                                   ^
RussianLetters2.java:10: illegal start of expression
   }
   ^
6 errors


 
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Earlier I tried to post exactly the same text, and forum software didn't allow me, but now it's fixed.
 
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Might be an encoding problem; please supply details of your editor and its settings including the encoding it is using.
 
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Ok, I must have done something wrong, I tried second program RussianLetters once again and it worked, I got same output as first RussianLetters program
 
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Are your letters coming out correctly for the PhraseOMatic now?
 
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It's still outputing wrong letters:

B:\Users\Desktop>java PhraseOMatic
Р?С?С?, С?С?Р? Р?Р°Р? Р?С?Р?Р?Р?, - С?С?Р? Р?Р° Р?С?Р?Р?Р?Р? Р?Р?Р?-С?Р?С?Р?Р?Р?
Р?Р?РёР№ С?Р°С?РїС?Р?Р?Р?Р?С?Р?Р?С?Р№ С?РёРї С?С?С?С?РєС?С?С?С?



Did I miss something? Do I have to put something in PhraseOMatic code?
 
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Perhaps the Windows console is set to the wrong country? ... when you run the "chcp" command, does it give you the code for Russia?

Henry
 
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It says:

The current code page:866

I translated it from Russian of course.
 
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That looks like the correct code page -- or one of them.
 
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...and what about your editor? What are you using and can you find its encoding?
 
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If Java is outputting in UTF8 then you'll get this issue, as Cp866 doesn't really agree with it.
The numbers will be a complete mismatch.

Not sure how you find out what Sysyout is using (locale possibly?).
 
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...and what about your editor? What are you using and can you find its encoding?



I'm using Notepad++ and it uses ANSI for encoding.

Sorry for not replying first time
 
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I found this SO thread about ANSI encoding, and a Wikipedia entry. It would appear that Windows 1252 may be incompatible with the code page you are using. The links also say that ANSI is an inaccurate name for the encoding. This link makes some suggestions of encodings suitable for Russian script. Also please tell us what the output from chcp is.
 
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Campbell wrote:Also please tell us what the output from chcp is.


He did.

Rich wrote:The current code page:866

 
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As I said, I suspect it's Java that is outputting in something other than Cp866.

Wrapping the Sys.out in another PrintStream that supplies a Cp866 encoding might work.
 
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Java® defaults to UTF16 for String literals, but I am not sure that helps. But why is OP getting the compiler errors in this post? Why did the first lot of code not show correctly on an option pane dialogue (same post).
I knew the name Cp686 looked familiar; I didn't notice that it was part of the output from chcp. Sorry.

It doesn't say anything about Locales in System#out, but there is the possibility

RM: what happens if you use printf instead of println? Not
System.out.println("Всё, что вам нужно, - это " + phrase);
but
System.out.printf("Всё, что вам нужно, - это %s%n", phrase);
That is because printf automatically uses your default Locale. If that doesn't work, try
System.out.printf(new java.util.Locale("RU", "ru"), "Всё, что вам нужно, - это %s%n", phrase);
Have I got the right syntax for the country abbreviation?
 
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System.out.printf("Всё, что вам нужно, - это %s%n", phrase);
That is because printf automatically uses your default Locale. If that doesn't work, try
System.out.printf(new java.util.Locale("RU", "ru"), "Всё, что вам нужно, - это %s%n", phrase);



Both of them worked, now there are no problems anymore.
That's funny, solution was really simple it's just one letter "f"
But I didn't use %s%n because it caused error:

B:\Users\Desktop>java PhraseOMatic
Всё, что вам нужно, - это Exception in thread "main" java.util.MissingFormatArgu
mentException: Format specifier '%s'
       at java.util.Formatter.format(Unknown Source)
       at java.io.PrintStream.format(Unknown Source)
       at java.io.PrintStream.printf(Unknown Source)
       at PhraseOMatic.main(PhraseOMatic.java:13)



But why is OP getting the compiler errors in this post?  



First time I just put RussianLetters program into txt file, and then saved it as .java file through notepad++ program and it worked.
Second RussianLetters program I copied and pasted instead first program directly into .java file and it didn't work.
When I saved second RussianLetters program into txt file, and then saved it as .java file program worked.

Problem solved,  are we done for sure?

 
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Rich McStone wrote:. . . But I didn't use %s%n because it caused error:

B:\Users\Desktop>java PhraseOMatic
Всё, что вам нужно, - это Exception in thread "main" java.util.MissingFormatArgu
mentException: Format specifier '%s'
. . .

. . .

You shouldn't get such an error if you wrote the printf call correctly. There shou‍ld be one object after the ", and what I wrote shouldn't cause that Exception.

Well done sorting out the printing
 
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Surely that's some kind of bug?
I wouldn't expect println and printf to function quite so differently.
 
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I tried all three versions, with println, option pane, and printf and all three worked nicely. But I am using Linux, where the terminal supports more characters than a Windows® command line.
 
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I can't try it here as I'm on a Mac.
And I'll have forgotten by the time I get home!
 
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Okay, thank you everybody very much for helping!
I really like this friendly community.

P.S. somehow, I don't have this problem with println anymore after using printf.
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