'£' symbol in java

[P Lee]

Hey folks,

Any ideas on how to display the '£' symbol in java run screen?

e.g. I have: screen.println("Total price is £ " + cost);

Thanks.

[Dillinger4]

Since DOS uses ASCII i doubt you will be able to print any unicode chracters.

class C {
 public static void main(String args[]){

  char c = '\u00a3'; //  pound sign '\u20a4' Lira 
  System.out.print(c);
  
   }
 }

While DOS does extend the ASCII set beyond 128(which is technically ISO Latin-1) ie.....
128 - 255(Special symbols, international character sets - generally these are non-standard characters) anything past 255 will just print out question marks.

class C {
 public static void main(String args[]){

  for(int i = 128; i < 256; ++i){ 
  System.out.print((char) i);
  
   }
  }
 }

[Dillinger4]

Once again we see that anything that falls out of the range of 0 to 2⁸ - 1(0 - 255) will print ? marks.

class C {
 public static void main(String args[]){

  char c = '\u005a'; // 90(Z)
  System.out.println(c);
  char d = '\u013c'; // 400(?)
  System.out.println(d);
  }
 }