why can this give a for letter out put?

class Charte
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
char char1, char2, char3, char4;

char1 = 10;

char2 = 14;

char3 = 23;

char4 = 5;

System.out.print("my name: ");
System.out.println(char1 + char2 + " " + char3 + char4);
}
}

Jose, I'm not sure what you're asking and what you're trying to do.

Looking at your code, java does strange things when you use the + sign with Strings and chars and ints.

What output did you want?

Bert

To concatenate strings in Java should you not use the "."

i.e.
char1.char2." ".char3.char4

glj

the out put i wanted was :jose . I was trying to use the unicode , i dont know much about unicode so i thought that thoses numbers was the number for those 4 letters but it didn´t work out with ("char1+" "+char2") it works with 4 chars i dont know if the problem is the numbers or the use of 4 chars?

Ah, ok.

From memory, what you are doing should work, but those numbers do not appear to be unicode values.
Have a look in the JDK1.3 directory and you'll find a demo applet which shows unicode values, select the appropriate ones from there and try again.
You would declare a type char like this

char char1 = 34c5; // 34c5 is not the real value - you need to check it yourself

type, name of type, assignment, then variable.

Concatenation is a fancy word for sticking two things together.
In java you use the + sign, although java does also use the dot notation to call a method,

like System.out.print calls the print method in the out class of the System superclass (I think).

Cymru am Byth // this is Welsh (I think).

It's Welsh for "Wales forever".

Actually I knew that one

Unicode in Java isn't as obvious as you might think. Sun has spent a lot of time making Java as locale-independent as possible. There's no such thing as:

char ch = char$(41)

in Java, because that assumes a particular encoding - not just ASCII or Unicode, where the number of bytes is different, but EBCDIC as well - EBCDIC is still very much alive and well, and IBM would just LOVE to sell you a mainframe where CICS runs with Java apps.

Try for something more like this:

public class Hi {
public static void main( String[] args ) {
byte[] hithere = new byte[2];
hithere[0] = 64 + 8;
hithere[1] = 64 + 9;
try {
String hiString = new String( hithere, "utf-8" );
System.out.println("I made a string: \"" + hiString + "\"");
} catch ( Exception ex ) {
System.out.println("Uh-oh! " + ex.getMessage() );
}
}
}

The arithmetic is because I was too lazy to count ASCII (UTF-8) on my fingers, so I let the compiler add it for me. If you want real Unicode, double the size of "hithere", set the even-numbered bytes to 0 (since Unicode is a 2-byte encoding extending ASCII) and use the encoding "UTF-16".

BTW, a good reasource for java questions is http://www.javaranch.com