Re: Actual width of unicode chracters.

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On 6/12/2012 7:23 PM, Young wrote:
>    I am trying to write a class that draws tables in console mode. Korean
> character takes two space width for one character.


I think "width" here does not mean what you think.


> When I count length of
> a string having numbers and Korean Characters together, I cannot get
> correct width.


String korean = ...

int count = korean.codePointCount( 0, korean.length()-1 );



> In result, I cannot align vertical line right.


Er, what?  Are you looking for this?

<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/2d/text/measuringtext.html>


>    So, I have wrote a new method, countWidth().


Use "codePointCount()" above.


>    However, this would work properly when I have English and Korean in
> string variables. How would I know how many character spaces in console?


Use "codePointCount()" above.


A short, self-contained, compilable example would help here:

http://sscce.org/

Thread

Actual width of unicode chracters. Young <ycp101@gmail.com> - 2012-06-13 02:23 +0000
  Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-12 20:42 -0700
  Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-12 20:45 -0700
    Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-13 00:58 -0700
      Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. Young <ycp101@gmail.com> - 2012-06-13 08:30 +0000
        Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-13 08:45 -0700
        Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-13 14:14 -0700
          Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-06-14 08:06 +0100
            Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. "mayeul.marguet" <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2012-06-14 10:26 +0200
              Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-06-14 15:32 +0200
                Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. "mayeul.marguet" <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2012-06-14 16:47 +0200
                Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-06-16 20:39 +0200
  Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-06-13 00:00 -0400
  Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-13 00:24 -0700
  Re: Actual width of unicode chracters. Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-06-13 10:24 +0100

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