On 09/02/2011 02:44 PM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> I see. As I said I saw something in the FOP classes which appeared
> to be looking for such a code and translating it, but I just pulled
> up a .FO file and I see it's already translated to be
> <fo:inline>□</fo:inline> so there must be something in the Oracle
> Transformer.
> So it seems FOP just gets the actual square and still has to know
> what character it maps to in the font.
>
> So I'm trying to pass in this text ("□") and get it to display
> with Java's Graphics2D.drawText().
> So I'm wondering if I translate that the same way I do to create this
> FO, with an XSL file and a Transformer or if there's a simpler
> method.
> So I'm looking at the class java.nio.charset.Charset trying to figure
> out if or how that connects to a custom font file.
Passing that string, you are passing a series of characters: ampersand,
number sign, lower-case Latin letter x, Arabic numeral two, etc. You
need to pass the text “□” — a single character, white square.
If all you have is the character code (U+25A1), you can create a new
String using the code; one of the String constructors takes an array of
integer code points as an argument.
~Chris
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free Americans pause.” — Alabama Supreme Court, 1955
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