I did the same and it was very fun ;)

Invalid punctuation has been removed from Java tests.

ahahaha that is thinking outside the box..

superb

Chess characters support added in python and java!!

\o/

And for me..

At least, we've tried :)

Still not working... :(

Here is an adapted version of the JS snippet:

  
    private static char print(String piece, int owner) {
        int code = 0x2654;
        if (owner == 1) {
            code += 6;
        }

        switch (piece) {
            case "pawn": code++;
            case "knight": code++;
            case "bishop": code++;
            case "rook": code++;
            case "queen": code++;
        }

        return (char) code;
    }
  

Works on my local environment.. If this works for you, then Unnamed is right - this is a bug on Codewars. You can report it as not being able to put unicode symbols in the source code.

And again - thanks for your effort!

But in the JS translation, that works... :o So?

These days with UTF-8 it's basically print("ⓦⓗⓐⓣⓔⓥⓔⓡ") in any language. If it doesn't work, it's a bug feature on Codewars.

Doesn't work... :/ Still got "?" in the board instead of the chess chars when I just copy/paste the symbols in the code. Surely I'm missing some tool to configure the thing correctly.

The JS version handles the thing differently, using something like codepoints (I guess...?):

var c = 0x2654;
if(p.owner == 1)
  c += 6;
switch(p.piece)
{
  case "pawn": c++;
  case "knight": c++;
  case "bishop": c++;
  case "rook": c++;
  case "queen": c++;
}
return String.fromCharCode(c);

If you know how to do the same in java, I'll try it too.

I haven't created any Katas, so I don't know the limitations with encoding and everything.. But for my local tests, I simply do this:

  
    private static char print(String piece, int owner) {
        switch (piece) {
            case "pawn":
                return owner == 0 ? '♙' : '♟';
            case "rook":
                return owner == 0 ? '♖' : '♜';
            case "knight":
                return owner == 0 ? '♘' : '♞';
            case "bishop":
                return owner == 0 ? '♗' : '♝';
            case "queen":
                return owner == 0 ? '♕' : '♛';
            case "king":
                return owner == 0 ? '♔' : '♚';
        }
        throw new RuntimeException("Unhandled piece!");
    }
    

The file is saved as UTF-8.

If this doesn't work for you, then probably there is something with encoding of the source code, or the console output.
Thanks for trying this!

Well... Could you provide the piece of code to use them as strings? Because with what I tried, I only get "?" in the board (I'm not confortable/used to unicode chars, especially in Java...)

Hi,

I confess I didn't try those being not sure if java could handle them, when I made the translation. I'll try that, thx.