How to get greek "mu"-symbol in JLabel-text?

Hi all!
I want a mu (the micro symbol) in the text property of a JLabel.
(I want to be able to display the unit micro-seconds as "mu"s...)
Can anyone help me with that, pretty please?

Oct 26 '07 #1

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Hi all!
I want a mu (the micro symbol) in the text property of a JLabel.
(I want to be able to display the unit micro-seconds as "mu"s...)
Can anyone help me with that, pretty please?

Open the API specs for the JLabel class (first hit on google if you search for "JLabel.java 6"). You will see the constructor which takes a String and also the setText method.

Oct 26 '07 #2

MimiMi

Thanks for answering and sorry for not being clear enough. The question should have been "How do I get a greek "mu"-symbol in a java string?"
I already knew how to set a JLabel text, that wasn't the problem, but anyhow thank you for taking the time to answer, that was nice of you!

Found out the answer myself. This is really what I wanted:

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 String microSeconds = "\u00B5"+"s";

 microSecondsjLabel.setText(microSeconds);

Oct 26 '07 #3

JosAH

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Found out the answer myself. This is really what I wanted:

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String microSeconds = "\u00B5"+"s";

microSecondsjLabel.setText(microSeconds);

Good; put this link in your bookmarks. That
site shows all codepoints for all available characters.

kind regards,

Jos

Oct 26 '07 #4

Matt Sigma

I see you found the answer there are 2 ways I know of:
In this example I want to show the degree celcius symbol in the label:

1) using html codes (note the <HTML> tag in front of the label
JLabel label = new JLabel("<HTML>Temperature °C");

2) using unicode (the same as you have already found)
JLabel label = new JLabel("Temperature \u00B0C");

I personally think the html version is more readable.

Oct 11 '10 #5