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Hi everyone,

I'm trying to display the Nigerian currency symbol (naira) which
unicode code is 20a6 using the awt method drawString(String s). My
code look somehow like this:

g.drawString("324234 \u20a6");

This code seems to be correct as a lot of other characters like \u20a4
(pounds), \u20ac (euros), \u20a7 (spanish pesetas) etc. are displayed
perfectly.

I know it sounds weird but does anyone have a solution or at least an
explanation.

Thank you.

Jave

Jave wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to display the Nigerian currency symbol (naira) which
> unicode code is 20a6 using the awt method drawString(String s). My
> code look somehow like this:
>
> g.drawString("324234 \u20a6");
>
> This code seems to be correct as a lot of other characters like \u20a4
> (pounds), \u20ac (euros), \u20a7 (spanish pesetas) etc. are displayed
> perfectly.
>
> I know it sounds weird but does anyone have a solution or at least an
> explanation.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jave

Are you sure that the Font has the symbol?

On 5 Sep 2003 05:28:14 -0700, (Jave) wrote
or quoted :

>I know it sounds weird but does anyone have a solution or at least an
>explanation.

The problem is the font you use must also support that character. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/font.html

--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

On 5 Sep 2003 05:28:14 -0700, (Jave) wrote
or quoted :

>g.drawString("324234 \u20a6");
>
>This code seems to be correct as a lot of other characters like \u20a4
>(pounds), \u20ac (euros), \u20a7 (spanish pesetas) etc. are displayed
>perfectly.

I run into the same problem displaying the Naira symbol in the CurrCon
currency conversion applet see
http://mindprod.com/zips/java/currcon.html Most people don't have a
default font installed that can handle it. It just shows as a little
box, though it handles many of the other currency symbols.

The key would be to find a font that is
1. redistributable
2. truetype
3. supports the Naira

and then bundle it with your app and use that font just to display
currency symbols.




--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

Roedy Green, you are just the best, Tahoma supports this symbol and
now it works perfectly. Thanks to all of you.

Jave