The problem here is when you tend to display an undefined character which
is usually printed by using default.char, the VM crached, the problem
does not occur when the awt component is TextField and TextArea.

The test code I used is as following:


import java.awt.*;

public class sample {
        static String hexConst = "0123456789ABCDEF";

        public static void main( String[] args ) {
                createa();
        }

        static private String getString(int higher) {
                char charr[];
                String css;

                charr = new char[8];

                for(int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
                        charr[j] = (char)(higher + j);
                        //charr[j * 2 + 1] = ' ';
                }
                return new String(charr);
        }

        static void createa () {

                Frame a=new Frame("Test");
                a.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
                a.add("Center", new TextArea(getString(0x3000))); //"ÂæÏÑ");

                a.add("South", new Label(getString(0x3000)));
                //a.add("North", new Button("Ë̵þ"));
                a.pack();
                a.show();
        }
}