strange char

> Hi all

>

> i'm trying to write to a file an arabic Character but

> when i did ,the fils has squear sign not char

>

> what to do to solve the problem?

First you have to identify what the problem is.

1) As flounder suggested you need to make sure you are displaying the character using a program that can and has a glyph that will show the character correctly.

2) How are you writing this character? Please post your relevent formatted code where you open this file and where you write this character to it.

cotton.ma at 2007-7-12 19:39:26 >

I believe that your "squear sign" is the rectangular box.

That's right

here is the coding that i'm using

and when i try to use that rectangular box the program is confiused between words that have the same number of letters

String enc="UTF8"

Local loc= new Local("ar");

Wrt= new PrinterWriter( new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("file.txt"),

enc)));

how can i change the font ?

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TheNewLeader

TheNewLeadera at 2007-7-12 19:39:26 >

> i'm using the UTF-8 for writing and am view my files

> in notebad

> i was able to read from an arabic file and view it

> but when i tried to write it gave me that strange

> char

>

> even i know how to write to files since i use it for

> english

Post the code you're currently using to write the file.

Notepad supports UTF-8, but you might have to force it to use it. Open Notepad, then choose File/Open. When you open the file, manually change the encoding from Unicode to UTF-8. I don't know if that makes a difference, but it's worth a shot.

hunter9000a at 2007-7-21 22:25:28 >

> This is the code that i use for writing

>

> PrintWriter out=

> new PrintWriter(

> new BufferedWriter(

> new OutputStreamWriter(

> new

> new

> FileOutputStream("write.txt"),

>

>

>enc)) );

That's where you create the PrintWriter, but where's the code where you actually write to it?

hunter9000a at 2007-7-21 22:25:28 >