\u00e4

I saw that \u00e4 in essentials prints out character "ä" but how essentials did it?

 

what?

Are you asking how to change a part of a string so it spits out a different one?

 

Mattigins In essentials Message_fi.properties it changes \u00e4 to character ä

 

The '\' in a String is an escape character meaning that what comes after it will act in a different way. For instance if you put \n into a String it will create a new line (this doesn't work in minecraft though) or \" will put a quotation mark in the String. The same thing is happening here except you are giving the unicode (I think) representation of that character. In other words if you just use that in a String or save it to a 'char', any time you print it out 'ä' should appear instead.

 

'\' is control operator and is not part of string, it used for long list of features, \u is unicode annotation.

 

Ok but how i can get character ä appear in chat? When player clicks sign, i want it to send message that contains ä

 

System.out.println('\u00e4' + "");