# Problem with Unicode

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/problem-with-unicode/20837>\
**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [May 13, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/problem-with-unicode/20837 "2020-05-13T17:19:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Arsenii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Arsenii](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Arsenii)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/problem-with-unicode/20837/1 "2020-05-13T17:19:03Z")

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I want to use Katakana symbols but i can not understand how to equate it to char variable

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**Author:** ![tony](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/tony/32/949_2.png) [@tony](https://discourse.processing.org/u/tony)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/problem-with-unicode/20837/2 "2020-05-14T00:43:18Z")

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Do you have a code snippet or example?

> [@Arsenii](#):
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> i can not understand how to equate it to char variable

To help others help you better, be more specific about what your problem is.

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**Author:** ![debxyz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@debxyz](https://discourse.processing.org/u/debxyz)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/problem-with-unicode/20837/3 "2020-05-14T01:37:42Z")

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You have found a katakana unicode chart? Yes?

Also, see this thread regarding accessing Japanese characters in processing:

[https://forum.processing.org/one/topic/japanese-characters-in-processing.html](https://forum.processing.org/one/topic/japanese-characters-in-processing.html)

However, I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “how to equate to character variable”.  
Can you be more specific what you are trying to do?

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**Author:** ![jeremydouglass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/jeremydouglass/32/20_2.png) [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/problem-with-unicode/20837/4 "2020-05-15T19:42:46Z")

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See also recent discussions of unicode in this thread:

> [@Rosetta Challenge! -- Reverse a String](https://discourse.processing.org/t/rosetta-challenge-reverse-a-string/20644/23):
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> In order to better understand what is happening, I started to solve the [UTF-8 encode and decode](http://rosettacode.org/wiki/UTF-8_encode_and_decode) related to this task. The task is : My working stage is: Where I ran again in problems because the last one is also a combined character. I can´t believe this isn’t possible in java. It must be possible at byte level. import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.util.Formatter; int t = 50; int tel; Character[] chars = {'A', 'ö', 'Ж', '€', '?'}; // I changed last character…