How to draw a unicode character in java?

Question

Short of copying the character to the clipboard and pasting it inside my string, is there a way to draw a greek letter (or for that matter, any unicode character)? I know the code for the character I am trying to draw is U+03F4 according to here. I have tried the following:

g.drawString("U+03F4", 100, 100); // works as a string literal as it should
g.drawString("\U+03F4", 100, 100); // error: Illegal escape character
g.drawString("\\U+03F4", 100, 100); // thought I could trick it. Just draws "\U+03F4"

I saw in this question that the 'u' was lowercase but that didn't make any difference.

Why would this not be working?

Answer 1

The general format for Java unicode escapes is

UnicodeEscape:
    \ UnicodeMarker HexDigit HexDigit HexDigit HexDigit

UnicodeMarker:
    u
    UnicodeMarker u

Therefore correct sequence for this character in Java is \u03F4.

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03F4/index.htm

Answer 2

I think the correct way to represent a unicode character is as follows:

g.drawString("\u03f4", 100, 100);