Question

Below code returns ? rather than a random character. Any ideas? Please note that i wrote this as pat of an exercise on method overloading hence the ‘complicated’ setup.

class TestRandomCharacter
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        char ch =  RandomCharacter.getRandomCharacter() ;
        System.out.println(ch);

    }//end main

}
 

class RandomCharacter 
{
    public static char getRandomCharacter(char ch1, char ch2)
    {
        return (char)(ch1 + Math.random() * ( ch2 - ch1 )) ;
    }

    public static char getRandomCharacter()
    {
        return getRandomCharacter('\u0000','\uFFFF') ;
    }
}

Answer 1

Your code is printing characters that cannot be displayed by the console or its font.