drawString with Chinese Characters

[vaskarbasak]

Hi all,
I am trying to display a Chinese string (UTF-8) with
Graphics2D.drawString() but nothing is displayed.
here i paste my code

package com;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.*;

public class StringImage {

public void drawImages(String data) {
try {
byte[] utf8 = data.getBytes("UTF-8");
data = new String(utf8);
BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(200, 200,
BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics2D g = bufferedImage.createGraphics();
g .setColor( Color.WHITE );
g .fillRect(0,0,200,200);
g.setColor(Color.black);
g.drawString(data, 20, 20);
g.dispose();
ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, "JPG", new File("test2.jpg"));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

public static void main(String args[]) {
new StringImage().drawImages("埔里鎮育英街175巷12弄7號");
}

}

Please help me.

Thanks.
vaskar

[JosAH]

It works fine for me; btw, you can remove the following two lines because they
don't do anything, i.e. they convert a String to a String:

byte[] utf8 = data.getBytes("UTF-8");
data = new String(utf8);
 

kind regards,

Jos

[BigDaddyLH]

By the way, it's always a good idea to check the return value of ImageIO.write to see if it was successful.

boolean success = ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, "jpeg", file);

[BigDaddyLH]

You will want to select a font, one that has the glyphs you need.

g.setFont(font);

[JosAH]

You will want to select a font, one that has the glyphs you need.

g.setFont(font);

My installation is a default Java SE 1.6 with a Dialog font family used and is
perfectly well capable of running (and displaying) those foreign characters
(on an ordinary vista laptop, US locale).

kind regards,

Jos

[BigDaddyLH]

My installation is a default Java SE 1.6 with a Dialog font family used and is
perfectly well capable of running (and displaying) those foreign characters
(on an ordinary vista laptop, US locale).

kind regards,

Jos

Call me paranoid, but I'm having doubts about the OP's setup. To test if a font can display a string, they can use Font's canDisplayUpTo.

[JosAH]

Call me paranoid, but I'm having doubts about the OP's setup. To test if a font can display a string, they can use Font's canDisplayUpTo.

Same here; if I recall correctly there are only two Java SE downloads and I just
tried it on an CJK installation: no problem there either. It could be a funny
default bytes to chars conversion though (see my first reply about those two lines).

kind regards,

Jos