I have alt codes stored in DB for example £
.
Now I want to read this from DB and print the symbol beloinging to this, e.g., the symbol £
.
But when I store the DB value in String, I get the alt code (£
) and not the sign which is how it works. But I need the symbol.
Unfortunately I can't change the DB to store unicodes and much more unfortunate is that I'm on Java 1.3 and I can't use any third party library.
Is there a solution to what I need?