How to display Chinese character in edit text box in Matlab GUI?

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Anandakumar Selvaraj
Anandakumar Selvaraj on 18 Feb 2014
Commented: Avishai on 24 Feb 2015
i Have to display chinese characters from db were i am able to display it in matlab console
But in gui only junk characters is displayed i use
set(handles.edit1, 'String', mandarinTxtOut);%for display text in edittext

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 18 Feb 2014
Edited: Walter Roberson on 18 Feb 2014
Unfortunately it cannot be done in a uicontrol('Style','edit') See http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/answers/114579-string-with-greek-font-and-suscrit-in-uitable
If you use style push you can do it. For example,
foo = uicontrol('Style','push', 'String','<HTML>AB&#21040;C');
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Anandakumar Selvaraj
Anandakumar Selvaraj on 18 Feb 2014
i tried your code your code sir i am able to get out put with little modification but a seperate edit text field is created and display's at the bottom .
h = uicontrol('Style','edit');
s = sprintf(mandarinTxtOut');
set(h,'String',s)
insted can it be used to display the value on the the edit text box i placed in the figure like the set method i used which displayed the english value
set(handles.edit1, 'String', mandarinTxtOut);

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Anandakumar Selvaraj
Anandakumar Selvaraj on 27 Feb 2014
finally I found The Answer by my self its just a matter of Adding The DefaultCharacterSet to utf 8 i am able to display all chinese charactes this goes for all langauage just add your supportable characterset like this in your code
feature('DefaultCharacterSet', 'UTF8') %# for Chinese Character support
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Lino Smaldo
Lino Smaldo on 22 Feb 2015
I tried to use the command
feature('DefaultCharacterSet', 'UTF8') %# for Chinese Character support
but it doesn't work, why? please help me

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