Printing Unicode in Java

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Hey all, I am building a game that uses standard playing cards, and I want to print out the unicode character for the suits.

I am doing this in Java.

Below is some basic test code to see if i could print these characters.

2663 is the unicode value of the character for clubs.

Whenever I run this, all I get is a question mark.

String clubs = "u2663";
System.out.println(clubs);

Thanks for any help.

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Hey all, I am building a game that uses standard playing cards, and I want to print out the unicode character for the suits.

I am doing this in Java.

Below is some basic test code to see if i could print these characters.

2663 is the unicode value of the character for clubs.

Whenever I run this, all I get is a question mark.

String clubs = "u2663";
System.out.println(clubs);

Thanks for any help.

You need a unicode font installed on your system to see them and have the program set to use that unicode font when dispalying the reults.

I had this problem when trying to copy chinese and japanese fonts from web pages that only showed up as square boxes until I installed the font. I could then copy and paste it into other things like googles language tools.