title: J2ME Tamil(UniCode) Character Display
body: <p>I tried a many way to print tamil character in J2ME application
   <code>வ</code> whose unicode value <code>U0BB5</code>.</p>
  
  <pre><code>/*
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  import javax.microedition.lcdui.Display;
  import javax.microedition.lcdui.Form;
  import javax.microedition.lcdui.StringItem;
  import javax.microedition.midlet.*;
  
  /**
   * @author arun kumar non ascii
   */
  public class SampleMidlet extends MIDlet {
  
      Display display;
      Form form = null;
      String ms = null;
      NewClass obj;
  
      public void startApp() {
          display = Display.getDisplay(this);
          form = new Form("Unicode Test");
          byte[] b = new byte[2];
          b[0] = 0x0b;
          b[1] = (byte) 0xb5;
          try {
              form.append("type0" + "வ");
              form.append("type1" + new String(b, "UTF-16"));
              form.append("type2" + new StringItem("", "\u0bb5").getText());
              form.append("type3" + "\u0bb5");
              form.append("type4" + new StringBuffer("\u0bb5"));
              form.append("type5" + new StringBuffer().append((char) Integer.parseInt("2997", 10)));
              form.append("type6" + ((char) Integer.parseInt("0bb5", 16)));
  
              char[] text = new char[]{'\u0bb5'};
              form.append(new String(text));
          } catch (Exception ex) {
              ex.printStackTrace();
          }
          display.setCurrent(form);
  
      }
  
      public void pauseApp() {
      }
  
      public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) {
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but all the time it shows  white box alone as shown.
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/21S7V.png" alt="OnMicroEmultor"></p>
  
  <p>where as in Netbeans emulator also shows the same, I'm targeting configuration for CLDC 1.1 and MIDP 2.0 .How to display that character without using Bitmap font (Image)file of that character ?</p>