I want to know the ANSI value of the character "\u202B" that make RTL alignment in the text file, the problem that I've used it in UTF8 file and it makes the text RTL but when the text file is ANSI it shows marks "???" that means that this character not identified, so any one can know what's the opposite code for this character in ANSI?
Windows-1256 is the "ANSI code page" if the system locale is set to Arabic.
A misnomer, but that what is called by all MS documentation...
In the Windows world "ANSI code page" should read "system code page"
Anyway, U+202B has no equivalent in in windows-1256.
You can probably achieve what you need with
U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK 0xFD in windows-1256
U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK 0xFE in windows-1256
There isn't one. ANSI is a pretty old standard by the American National Standards Institute. It doesn't support RTL languages like Arabic or Hebrew.
The Wikipedia Article "ANSI escape code" lists all the codes that it supports.
The workaround is to use a font which renders the glyphs (characters) you need, print them in the opposite order and use cursor movement commands to right align the text.
[EDIT] You're confusing a couple of things. First of all, ANSI is a set of escape sequences to control your terminal.
ASCII, Windows 1256 and UTF-8 are character encodings (i.e. ways to represent text as sequences of octets or bytes).
Unicode is a library of glyphs. It tries to contain each and every glyph that you need to display text in any language. You can encode Unicode data using UTF-8, -16, etc. to serialize it.
The special Unicode Character RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING (U+202B) has no representation in any other character encoding.
You will have to write a program to parse the input and then you will have to output the text to the printer, sorting the characters in the correct order. There is no shortcut to do this.
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Im trying to put text with arabic letters, some of the text working correctly, and the others symbol is showing weirdly.
Some of the letters just font issue, i can still tolerate if it fix all the mistakenly displayed symbol.
I tried to change font, putting on string, custom font, but it does not work. Any ideas guys ?
i put the pull the text from string res currently.
here is the wrong letters.
here is the correct letters
You should use custom font for your view..
For example this view support TextView custom font from assets.
If you were wondering what encoding would be most efficient:
All Arabic characters can be encoded using a single UTF-16 code unit (2 bytes), but they may take either 2 or 3 UTF-8 code units (1 byte each), so if you were just encoding Arabic, UTF-16 would be a more space efficient option.
I have a form which contains several fields like textbox, lables, etc.
In text fields I used "Kruti Dev 040 Wide" font to type value in Hindi, But when i save this value to database its shown in English. Please help me out of this problem I want this values in database in Hindi format.
Thanks and regards
Sandeep Sharma
Normally, you'd expect to have to set up your database to store UTF-8, in order to use Devanagari characters (the ones used for Hindi). But the Kruti Dev fonts avoid this issue by doing something slightly nasty. They actually make the Roman letters look like the Devanagari letters. This has the advantage that you can easily type Hindi on a standard English keyboard. But it has the disadvantage that anything that you write in Hindi will, under the covers, be Roman text.
So you have two options.
You can use a Kruti Dev font, but be aware that you'll still be working with Roman text. If you want to display your text, and have it look like Hindi, you'll need to use a Kruti Dev font to display it.
You can abandon the Kruti Dev font, and use UTF-8 characters for the Devanagari characters; making sure, of course, that your database is able to save UTF-8.
I have a database with japanese words. Additionaly i have algorithm that reads these words and put them into JTextArea.
Problem is I see rectangles instead of japanese signs.
But when i copy such a set of rectangles (ctrl+c) from JTA and put them into eg. command input of TotalCommander or Winword document, signs appears are displayed properly. But only under Win7.
Because i run Eclipse on Virtual Machine under winXP I have ability of copy rectangles also to command input of TotalCommander under winXP. There are remain rectangles as in my Java app.
It means that there is in JTA an info about particular signs, but JTA can't interpretes this info.
Of course I have installed proper font.
I've tried many way with fonts:
textArea.setFont(new Font(blablabla));
and similar, but without effects.
What should i do?
The Problem with your JTextArea is most-probably, that the font you're using isn't applicable for UTF-8 & Japanese. The font doesn't provide an mapping table from UTF-8 values to characters. i.e. 0x41 is in ASCII, as well as in UTF-8 and even SHIFT-JIS the letter 'A' - but the Font you're just linking, resolves 0x41 to an Kanji character. And the whole font doesn't contain Hiragana and Katakana characters at all - please see also the comments section on the site where you got this font from here.
After using ChapMap it has a WSIfonts TAG and does ＮＯＴ！ support ALL the Chinese characters it only has 90 characters and assigns 1 character per Char except Caps.
It's a chinese font - not a Japanese one. But it won't even provide all chinese characters and has no useful mapping table included - so it's pretty useless.
Try to use another font - that should work just fine, if it contains really japanese characters and provides an applicable mapping table for UTF-8.
You can find fonts, that would work i.e. here
I am having problem with my Android application. Which is not displaying some special letters ie, complex/combined letters (KOOTTAKSHARAM) from Malayalam language.
In my application I am using WebView to load the html prepared with Unicode chars received from server. The font 'Thoolika.ttf' is loading from asset.
Later I was used ascii text from server, and .ttf font file and worked without problem. I tried UTF-8 conversion also, but didn't help.
So I would like to know is it possible to display complex/combined letters (KOOTTAKSHARAM) from Malayalam language, using Unicode chars and Unicode font file (.ttf) ?
The split rendering of Koottaksharam and Chillu in Malayalam is not the real issue. The real issue is - only a few manufacturers support Malayalam Unicode fonts, and little of them renders Malayalam correctly.
You can read Malayalam in Samsung, but NOT in HTC, LG, Sony etc. Google has added native support for Malayalam in JellyBean (v.4.1)
The only workaround is - convert the Unicode text into ASCII codes, use that ASCII text in components, and load the font dynamically. You can see that at Manoramaonline.com - see the HTML source - they are not using Unicode, instead they are using some symbols, and displays those symbols using their own font, which eventually looks like Malayalam text.
Mathrubhumi.com has a mobile version of their website, which uses the same technique. You can read Malayalam perfectly even when there's no support for it. I think they are first typing out the ASCII version (to publish for Print and Android) and converts it into Unicode later (to publish in Websites)
There are many ASCII-to-Unicode converters like http://aksharangal.com/ and one famous Unocode-to-ASCII converter is - http://smc.org.in/silpa/ASCII2Unicode
I want to write a java program to print Unicode characters. I want to detect and not print Unknown/Unassigned CHaracters (which are shown by a rectangular). I have tried "isDefined" and "isISOControl" from "Character" class, but it does not work.
Does anybody know the solution? it will be a big help for me.
Thanks.
The characters that are shown as a rectangle (on Windows) are ones that aren't available in the font you're using. While you could filter out a lot of them by filtering out undefined and control characters, it's entirely possible that the problem you're running into is that your font doesn't support certain ranges of valid characters (which is typical -- very few fonts define glyphs for all defined Unicode characters).
If your goal is really to remove characters that render as a rectangle, you can use the canDisplay method in Font.