Frame won't display Japanese in caption on English NT

Name: rk38400 Date: 04/11/98


I'm trying to put Japanese text in a JFrame. The
steps are the following:

1. create the JFrame
2. call setTitle on the JFrame, passing Japanese
text "\u306b\u307b\u3093\u3054", which contains
hiragana for "Nihongo"
3. the text displays as "????" in the JFrame

I am using a U.S. English NT 4.0 system and have
installed the MS Gothic font for Japanese support.
I have also added this font to font.properties. I
believe I have a valid configuration because I
can use Japanese text without problems in JMenu,
JMenuItem, and JLabel using setText.

I believe that your JFrame is trying to convert
the Unicode to my system's default codepage (1252)
before displaying it. This should be incorrect
behavior.
(Review ID: 26266)
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###@###.### 10/4/04 16:47 GMT
As of now, no NT is supported any more but for modern systems it's not a bug. You cannot expect to see ideographics without installing a system pack. Back in NT days, a single font (even properly introduced to Java) was as well not enough for Windows to show decorations.