How to draw a unicode character in java?

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Short of copying the character to the clipboard and pasting it inside my string, is there a way to draw a greek letter (or for that matter, any unicode character)? I know the code for the character I am trying to draw is U+03F4 according to here. I have tried the following:

g.drawString("U+03F4", 100, 100); // works as a string literal as it should
g.drawString("\U+03F4", 100, 100); // error: Illegal escape character
g.drawString("\\U+03F4", 100, 100); // thought I could trick it. Just draws "\U+03F4"

I saw in this question that the 'u' was lowercase but that didn't make any difference.

Why would this not be working?

Also, be sure that the font you're using supports those characters ;) — MadProgrammer, Jun 13 '14 at 23:43

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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The general format for Java unicode escapes is

UnicodeEscape:
    \ UnicodeMarker HexDigit HexDigit HexDigit HexDigit

UnicodeMarker:
    u
    UnicodeMarker u

Therefore correct sequence for this character in Java is \u03F4.

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03F4/index.htm

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Jun 13 '14 at 23:36

Matt Ball

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '14 at 23:35

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I think the correct way to represent a unicode character is as follows:

g.drawString("\u03f4", 100, 100);

answered Jun 13 '14 at 23:35

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '14 at 23:37

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g.drawString("\u03f4", 100, 100);

if you want to get a char, use '\u03f4', but in this case use double quotes since you want it to be a String.

answered Jun 13 '14 at 23:37

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How to draw a unicode character in java?

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