displaying unicode characters

hi -

i wanted to display hindi characters in a java 2 program. normally i use edit command in dos to make my programs. iam using windows xp. i installed the regional support for indic languages but could not right in the dos editor in unicode. so i wrote the program in notepad and saved it as Unicode encoding scheme. later i used the following command to compile the program:

javac -encoding UTF-16 txtHindi.java
java txtHindi

however the output showed

???

it showed the same output when i saved the file in notepad as UTF-8 encoding.

can anyone please help as to how can i display hindi/unicode charcaters in a java program?

and also whether is it necessary to use swing or something else to be able to display it correctly?

regards.
siddhartha

I'm curious, what does your Java code look like?
Does the DOS command line support unicode characters?

I know in HTML, when I use a special character that the font does not support it, it replaces it with a question mark.

I think the dos command line does not. so it was showing the questionmarks. the code was ordinary - i was just trying to display hindi text using System.out.println(). the argument was in hindi and i saved the file in notepad using UTF-8 and Unicode encoding schemes respectively and tried both of them out.

later i learnt dos commmand line did not support it. instead i used swing which allows labels etc to display unicode characters. could you tell me if i can use unicode characters in RDF and HTML? i think it should be possible in HTML because there are pages in native languages. could you tell me about RDF pages?

regards.

siddharth