Java apps cannot draw Euro symbol in a windows because there is no
font properties file specifying X11 fonts with iso8859-15 encodings.

This simple test should display the Euro symbol in a TextArea and a Label.
Use "setenv LANG en_GB.ISO8859-15" on Solaris 2.7.

(For later builds of jdk1.2, watch out for libc bug 4171977, nl_langinfo
is broken causing file.encoding to be wrong.)

import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.Label;
import java.awt.TextArea;

public class SimpleEuroTest extends Frame {

    private TextArea textArea;
    private Label label;
    public static final char EURO = '\u20ac';

    private static final String testString = "EURO(" + EURO + ")";

    /**
     * Create a Frame containing a single TextArea displaying the given string.
     */
    private SimpleEuroTest() {
        add(new TextArea(testString, 20, 60));
        add(new Label(testString), "South");
        pack();
        show();
    }

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