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Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows

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On Sunday, July 22, 2012 10:37:13 AM UTC-7, Philip Brown wrote:
>
> Yeah, I figured.
> The good news is, I found a solution to get the JRE working properly in windows, so it can work as well as MacOS.
> 
> 

fyi, if anyone is curious as to what exactly my program is doing:

I thought I had lost the source code, which made me very sad:( but I found an ooold version of it.

For the terminally curious, I've made it available at

http://www.bolthole.com/jdrill/jdrill-2.0-src.tar.gz

Warning: It was written in 1999, and in AWT :)

It's rather long, so for anyone interested, I'll suggest that you look at the GamePanel class (which is the main window), and specifically the (Label) MAIN_B object, which is the object that initially comes up with a Kanji char in it.

It should be noted that it does "set a font"; however, it just grabs the generic "dialog" font. Paraphrasing the code a bit:
font = new Font("dialog", 0, 24);

This gets its label string set to a value cached from a 
KanjiDicLine obj, either from obj.getEnglish or obj.getKanji

The Kanji object is a regular String object, populated by an operational chain that looks something like 
BufferedReader(InputStreamReader(file, "EUCJIS")).readLine
  ->String ->StringBuffer ->char[] -> String
(mostly in parseKDLine(). which is used to parse a line from the dictionary file "KanjiDic", a small version of which is in the source code tarfile)

So basically, it is a raw unicode string.
Which is supposed to be handled by java transparently, I thought.

I set the Label's label to be a raw unicode string, and expect it to "do the right thing".

On MacOS, it does the right thing. On windows, it doesnt, unless I do that hack.

 
 
> step 1: copy (jre)/lib/fontconfig.properties.src to fontconfig.properties
> step 2: modify the line
> 
> sequence.allfonts=alphabetic/default,dingbats,symbol
> 
> to be
> sequence.allfonts=alphabetic/default,dingbats,symbol,japanese
> 

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problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows phil@bolthole.com - 2012-07-21 22:31 -0700
  Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-21 23:48 -0700
    Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com> - 2012-07-22 05:00 -0700
      Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-22 13:15 -0700
  Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-07-22 12:53 +0100
    Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com> - 2012-07-22 05:47 -0700
      Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-22 08:46 -0700
  Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2012-07-22 09:22 -0700
    Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com> - 2012-07-22 09:55 -0700
      Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-22 10:10 -0700
        Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com> - 2012-07-22 10:37 -0700
          Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-22 11:31 -0700
            Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com> - 2012-07-22 11:40 -0700
          Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-22 11:47 -0700
          Re: problem with java displaying unicode, under ms-windows Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com> - 2012-07-22 12:09 -0700

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