Malformed Farsi characters on AWT
- by jlover2010
Hi
As i started programming by jdk6, i had no problem in text components neither in awt nor in swing.
But for labels or titles of awt components, yes :
I couldn't have Farsi characters displayable on AWTs just as simple as Swing by typing them into the source code.
lets check this SSCCE :
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Properties;
public class EmptyFarsiCharsOnAWT extends JFrame{
public EmptyFarsiCharsOnAWT() {
super("????");
setDefaultCloseOperation(3);
setVisible(rootPaneCheckingEnabled);
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws AWTException, IOException {
JFrame jFrame = new EmptyFarsiCharsOnAWT();
MenuItem show ;
// approach 1 = HardCoding :
/*
show = new MenuItem("\u0646\u0645\u0627\u06cc\u0634");
*
*/
// approach 2 = using simple utf-8 saved text file :
/*
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("farsiLabels.txt"));
String showLabel = in.readLine();
in.close();
show = new MenuItem(showLabel);
*
*/
// approach 3 = using properties file :
FileReader in = new FileReader("farsiLabels.properties");
Properties farsiLabels = new Properties();
farsiLabels.load(in);
show = new MenuItem(farsiLabels.getProperty("tray.show"));
PopupMenu popUp = new PopupMenu();
popUp.add(show);
// creating Tray object
Image iconIamge = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("greenIcon.png");
TrayIcon trayIcon = new TrayIcon(iconIamge, null, popUp);
SystemTray tray = SystemTray.getSystemTray();
tray.add(trayIcon);
jFrame.setIconImage(iconIamge);
}
}
Yes, i know each of three approaches in source code does right when you may test it from IDE , but if you make a JAR contains just this class, by means of NetBeans project clean&build ,you won't see the expected characters and will just get EMPTY/BLANK SQUARES !
Unfortunately, opposed to other situations i encountered before, here there is no way to avoid using awt and make use of Swing in this case.
And this was just an SSCCE i made to show the problem and my recent (also first) application suffers from this subject.
Note:
it seems i can not attach anything, so the contents od the text file would be this: ????? and the contents of properties file:
#Sun May 02 09:45:10 IRDT 2010
tray.show=?????
but i don't think by giving you the unicode-scape sequence, these would be necessary any way...
And i think should have to let you know I posted this question a while ago in SDN and "the Java Ranch" forums and other native forums and still I'm watching...
By the way i am using latest version of Netbeans IDE...
I will be so grateful if anybody has a solution to this damn AWT components never rendered any Farsi character for me...
Thanks in advance
