Kana characters? (was Re: [jdom-interest] HELP!)

[Angela Amoateng]

Hi again Grzegorz and Hi to Alan!

Thanks for the input in regards to displaying Japanese characters! The 
unicode chart has the decimal and hexadecimal values of the Hiragana 
alphabet, but I just could not find how to actually implement it.

For example, do  I copy and characters from the chart or do I have to 
use the decimal and hexadecimal values to display them?

I am playing around with both at the moment, so I will let you know how 
I get on, but in the meantime, if anyone has an example of how it 
should be done, I would appreciate it! =)

Thanks again in advance!

Angela

Quoting Grzegorz Kaczor <grzegorz.kaczor at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
> I believe that the XML APIs like JDOM, XOM and similar do 
> notimplement their own UTF-8 or any other encoding and 
> useJava-implemented encodings instead. And I believe that modern 
> JavaUnicode implementation is based on Unicode 4.0 and Kanji is one 
> ofimplemented scripts. So it should work.
>> Just out of curiosity, does someone have a sample of JDOM-generated 
>> XML> that includes Hiragana and Katakana glyphs?   What about Kanji? 
>>  Is this> done with the familiar encoding="UTF-8" at the beginning 
>> or something else?
> I don't see anything extraordinary in creating an XML file with 
> suchcharacters. You can just paste them from webpages to your Java 
> editor,I believe. However, if your default system encoding is not 
> UTF-8, youshould use a switch when compiling:
> javac -encoding utf8 Utf8Test.java
> If you have an XML file encoded with UTF-8, you can omit the 
> encodingin the declaration - it is by default UTF-8. However if you 
> use lotsof non-standard characters (for example, from outside of 
> BMP), I wouldconsider using UTF-16 to decrease the file size.
> To be strict, glyphs are graphical representations of 
> characters.UTF-8 and other encodings only encode Unicode character 
> codes assequences of bytes. Even if you can process the characters 
> using JDOMyou may be still unable to see them due to missing fonts, 
> for example.
> Regards,Grzegorz
> On 21/05/07, Alan Deikman <Alan.Deikman at znyx.com> wrote:> Angela 
> Amoateng wrote:> > 1)Does  JDOM recognise and create an XML document 
> containing Japanese> > characters, specifically Hiragana? How will I 
> go about this?> I have been using JDOM for quite a while with great 
> success, but I> haven't really encountered this yet.>> Just out of 
> curiosity, does someone have a sample of JDOM-generated XML> that 
> includes Hiragana and Katakana glyphs?   What about Kanji?  Is this> 
> done with the familiar encoding="UTF-8" at the beginning or something 
> else?>>> --> Alan Deikman> ZNYX Networks>> 
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Angela Amoateng
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