Weird character when formatting in colours

[Acrogenous 1]

On the lore of one of my Items there is this string:

but in minecraft it is displayed with what I believe is an Å at the start of it:

any idea to how I remove this rogue character but keep the formatting?

Thanks in advanced

[Draco18s 1995]

Show your code. You're probably doing it wrong.

 

[diesieben07 6361]

11 minutes ago, Acrogenous said:

On the lore of one of my Items there is this string:

but in minecraft it is displayed with what I believe is an Å at the start of it:

any idea to how I remove this rogue character but keep the formatting?

Thanks in advanced

Don't put formatting codes in your lang file. Use String interpolation.

[Acrogenous 1]

18 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

Don't put formatting codes in your lang file. Use String interpolation.

this isn't the lang file this is 

Lore.add(1,"§2Bound Entropy: "+String.valueOf(a.getTagCompound().getInteger("entropy")));

how would you suggest to go about using string interpolation to achieve the same result? (I am not particularly familiar with interpolation)

Edited October 27, 2017 by Acrogenous

[Draco18s 1995]

Yep, you're doing it wrong.

The TextFormatting enum is a thing.

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/1.12.1/src/main/java/com/draco18s/flowers/item/ItemOreFlower1.java#L55

Edited October 27, 2017 by Draco18s

[Differentiation 21]

Lore.add(1, TextFormatting.DARK_GREEN + "Bound Entropy: " + String.valueOf(a.getTagCompound().getInteger("entropy")));

Solved.

[Acrogenous 1]

Ah, I thought that only applied to TextComponent! Thank you all!

[diesieben07 6361]

43 minutes ago, Acrogenous said:

this isn't the lang file

It should be.

 

43 minutes ago, Acrogenous said:

how would you suggest to go about using string interpolation to achieve the same result? (I am not particularly familiar with interpolation)

I18n.format("my.text", TextFormatting.GREEN, entropy) with

my.text=%sBound Entropy: %s

[Choonster 1606]

While using a lang file and the TextFormatting enum is the proper way to do this, it should still be possible to use formatting codes inline. Your issue was probably happening because your code wasn't saved or compiled as UTF-8.