title: is it possible to use braille characters as string character
body: <p>I copied all the braille characters into a string array and was hoping to use it  to read and print braille characters. However, when I was trying to compile the program.the following error message popped up</p>
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  <pre><code>    private String[] alphabet= {&quot;⠁&quot;,&quot;⠃&quot;,&quot;⠉&quot;,&quot;⠙&quot;,&quot;⠑&quot;,&quot;⠋&quot;,&quot;⠛&quot;,&quot;⠓&quot;,&quot;⠊&quot;,&quot;⠚&quot;,&quot;⠅&quot;,&quot;⠇&quot;,&quot;⠍&quot;,&quot;⠝&quot;,&quot;⠕&quot;,&quot;⠏&quot;,&quot;⠟&quot;,&quot;⠗&quot;,&quot;⠎&quot;,&quot;⠞&quot;,&quot;⠥&quot;,&quot;⠧&quot;,&quot;⠭&quot;,&quot;⠽&quot;,&quot;⠵&quot;,&quot;⠯&quot;,&quot;⠿&quot;,&quot;⠷&quot;,&quot;⠮&quot;,&quot;⠾&quot;,&quot;⠡&quot;,&quot;⠣&quot;,&quot;⠩&quot;,&quot;⠹&quot;,&quot;⠱&quot;,&quot;⠫&quot;,&quot;⠻&quot;,&quot;⠳&quot;,&quot;⠪&quot;,&quot;⠺&quot;,&quot;⠂&quot;,&quot;⠆&quot;,&quot;⠒&quot;,&quot;⠲&quot;,&quot;⠢&quot;,&quot;⠖&quot;,&quot;⠶&quot;,&quot;⠦&quot;,&quot;⠔&quot;,&quot;⠴&quot;,&quot;⠌&quot;,&quot;⠬&quot;,&quot;⠼&quot;,&quot;⠜&quot;,&quot;⠄&quot;,&quot;⠤&quot;,&quot;⠈&quot;,&quot;⠘&quot;,&quot;⠸&quot;,&quot;⠐&quot;,&quot;⠨&quot;,&quot;⠰&quot;,&quot;⠠&quot;,&quot;⠀&quot;};
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  <p>this is the string array i was trying to use.</p>
  <p>Thanks</p>
  <p>Edit:</p>
  <p>Update. The program compiles and save just fine after changing the encoding preference or clicking the &quot;save as UTF-8&quot; button. However, I am still unable to print the character like one could with a normal string.</p>
  <p>I am looking for sth like this</p>
  <pre><code>System.out.println(&quot;this is the character: &quot;+ &quot;⠛&quot;);
  
  </code></pre>
  <p>expected output</p>
  <p>this is the character: ⠛</p>
  <p>actual output</p>
  <p>this is the character:</p>