title: Make the plus sign a string in java
body: <p>So I want the plus sign to be stored as a string and displayed to the screen later; so in this case I have</p>
  
  <pre><code> String plusSign = "+";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when I display the above on screen, I get a weird plus sign that has a circle around it. I am using the variable in an app that I'm making so using android may have something to do with the strange format. Is this how the plus sign is supposed to look or is there a way to make it look like a normal plus(a cross with no circle)?</p>
  
  <p>Let me add some alternatives I've tried. The first thing I did was see if the unicode version of the plus sign would look any different but nothing appeared when I displayed it(the code was \u002B). I, also, looked at the ascii version but I wasn't sure how to convert it to a string.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code I use to display the string onScreen</p>
  
  <pre><code> Addition = new Text(PositionX, PositionY, standardFont, "Intergers" + plusSign + "Integers");
   mScene.attachChild(Addition); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I use andEngine, so here is the Text class <a href="http://code.google.com/p/andengine/source/browse/src/org/anddev/andengine/entity/text/Text.java" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/andengine/source/browse/src/org/anddev/andengine/entity/text/Text.java</a></p>
  
  <p>It looks like it is related to android: <a href="http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-faq/65474-what-those-icons.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-faq/65474-what-those-icons.html</a></p>
  
  <p>So it seems like if you use a font that does not support a certain character, it defaults to what ever android uses.</p>