Question

I’m trying to display arabic text in java but it shows junk characters(Example : ¤[ï߯[î) or sometimes only question marks when i print. How do i make it to print arabic. I heard that its something related to unicode and UTF-8. This is the first time i’m working with languages so no idea. I’m using Eclipse Indigo IDE.

EDIT:
If i use UTF-8 encoding then “¤[ï߯[î” characters are becoming “????????” characters.

Answer 1

For starters you could take a look here. This should allow you to make Eclipse print unicode in its console (which I do not know if it is something which Eclipse supports out of the box without any extra tweaks)

If that does not solve your problem you most likely have an issue with the encoding your program is using, so you might want to create strings in some manner similar to this:

String str = new String("تعطي يونيكود رقما فريدا لكل حرف".getBytes(), "UTF-8");

This at least works for me.