Thread: how can i convert unicode to string?

im creating a simple encryption program that can encrypt and decrypt sentences entered by converting all the letters to unicode subtracting or adding a "key" to it then converting it back to a letter.
right now the program works in converting to unicode and adding or subtracting the key. but i cant for the life of me figure out how to convert the unicode back into a letter. any help with this would be much appreciated
so far i have tried:
Character.getName(unicode);
Character.toChars(unicode);
and a couple others i cant recall XD

ok here is my program with the getName and toChars examples i said, one for encryption and one for decryption.
and what i mean is that each letter in java has a corresponding unicode, (example " "(space) has the unicode of 32) what my program does is turn each letter to its unicode value subtract a key chosen by the user and then convert it back to the letter it corresponds to, however im having difficulty with the second part of turning the unicode back into the corresponding letter. (also i have limiters on this program where if the letter is a space i leave it without encrypting it and if the encryption makes a letter go too high or too low it loops back around to the beginning of the alphabet, example the letter is Z and the key for encryption is 1 (meaning make Z go up 1 letter) instead of going to the next unicode after Z (i beleive its "/") it loops back around to A.

//made by: Matteo Zecconi
//date: January, 03, 2013
//This program will encrypt or decrypt a phrase using the simple encryption method of rotating letters.
package simpleencryption;
 
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
/**
 *
 * @author Matteo
 */
public class SimpleEncryption {
 
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        //declare the variables
        String Rotation = "0";//the rotation amount that the user enters
        String phrase = "";//the phrase that the user wants encrypted or decryted
        int unicode = 0;//used to determine the unicode of the phase
        String phraseEn = "";//the phrase in unicode form encrypted
        String choice = "0";//used to determine if the user wants to encrypt or decrypt a message
        int i = 0;//used in the for loop
 
        phrase = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("This program will encrypt or decrypt a phrase using the\nsimple encryption method of rotating letters.\n\nPlease enter a phrase");
        phrase = phrase.toUpperCase();
        choice = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("1 - Encryption \n2 - Decryption");
        Rotation = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the rotation amount (1-25)");
 
        //decryption
        if (choice.equals("2")) {
            if (Integer.parseInt(Rotation) > 25 || Integer.parseInt(Rotation) < 1) {
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The rotation amount entered is not valid");
            } else {
                for (i = 0; i < phrase.length(); i++) {
                    unicode = phrase.codePointAt(i);
                    if (unicode == 32) {
                        phraseEn += " ";
                    } else {
                        unicode = unicode - Integer.parseInt(Rotation);
                        if (unicode < 65) {
                            unicode = unicode + 26;
                        }
                        phraseEn += Character.getName(unicode);
                    }
                }
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The original Phrase is: " + phrase + "\nThe decrypted phrase is: " + phraseEn);
            }
        } else {
//encryption
 
            if (Integer.parseInt(Rotation) > 25 || Integer.parseInt(Rotation) < 1) {
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The rotation amount entered is not valid");
            } else {
                for (i = 0; i < phrase.length(); i++) {
                    unicode = phrase.codePointAt(i);
                    if (unicode == 32) {
                        phraseEn += " ";
                    } else {
                        unicode = unicode + Integer.parseInt(Rotation);
                        if (unicode > 90) {
                            unicode = unicode - 26;
                        }
                        phraseEn += Character.toChars(unicode);
                    }
                }
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The original Phrase is: " + phrase + "\nThe encrypted phrase is: " + phraseEn);
            }
        }
    }
}

OMG java does that!!!?? well then thats all i need, thank you very much. im used to coding in actionscript where it couldnt do that you had to convert it to unicode and then back to its letter. thank you very much norm for helping me