[TiffanyLim]

Is there a way to display Chinese or other unicode characters
on the Nokia Series 40 handphones? I have tried using
the standard "/u" unicode escape sequence in my strings
to no avail. Reading from a utf-8 file also proved futile and
the same goes for changing the language settings for the
phone (which just changed the system characters). Thank you.

Best regards,
Tiffany Lim
www.Sherman3D.com

[grahamhughes]

Tiffany,

This works in the 7210 emulator, but only when started with one of these commands:

7210.exe -language chinese_simplified chtest.jad
7210.exe -language chinese_traditional chtest.jad

My code is:

import javax.microedition.midlet.*;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.*;

public class chtest extends MIDlet implements CommandListener {

    private static final Command cmdEXIT =
            new Command ("Exit", Command.EXIT, 1);

    public void startApp () {
        Display disp = Display.getDisplay (this);

        Form frm = new Form ("\u4f60\u597d");
        frm.addCommand (cmdEXIT);
        frm.setCommandListener (this);

        disp.setCurrent (frm);

        frm.append ("\u4f60\u597d");
    }

    public void pauseApp () {
    }

    public void destroyApp (boolean bUnconditional) {
    }
	
    public void commandAction (Command cmd, Displayable disp) {
        if (cmd == cmdEXIT) {
            destroyApp (false);
            notifyDestroyed ();
        }
    }
}

My phone is a European 6100, so doesn't display Chinese characters. Does it work for you? If it does, you should be able to use both '\u<i>xxxx</i>' notation or UTF-8. If you can't get it working, you're welcome to post some code, or email it to me (click the "profile" button at the bottom of this message).

Graham.

[TiffanyLim]

Thanks, Graham. I will try it out at work.
Does this work on the Nokia 7210 emulator that
comes with the SDK?

Best regards,
Tiffany Lim
www.Sherman3D.com

[grahamhughes]

Yes - I've only tried it on the emulator from the 7210 SDK, because I know my phone won't display Chinese characters. I think it has to be a Chinese (or at least Asia/Pacific) model.

(I should add: I don't read Chinese script, so I have no idea what the characters "\u4f60\u597d" mean! I apologize if I have inadvertantly written something inappropriate!)

Graham.

[TiffanyLim]

Thanks a lot, Graham. It seems to be working fine for me now -
must have used the wrong unicode because I did the
exact same thing before. I am not sure what the Chinese
characters mean myself so don't worry. Looks like I will have to
get a list of Chinese unicode escape sequences.

I am having some problems with tone and midi now so I am
going to post in the Sound forum.

Thanks again.

Best regards,
Tiffany Lim
www.Sherman3D.com

[doctordwarf]

Tiffany, you can set emulator's language from the emulator's Tools menu. This way you don't need any command line arguments.

If you used external UTF-8 files instead of unicode sequence you can copy-paste chinese characters from, e.g. word document to any application that will create UTF-8 file. I've heard that you can make such files with standard Windows notepad. I created a small Java application for this issue (a bit more complex, of course. If I needed just copy paste I would try using notepad first)