The following snippet of code:

--- code begins ---

class Foo
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    System.out.println(new String("\u00EA\u00E9"));
  }
}

--- code ends ---

produces the following output under JDK 1.2.1 on Solaris:

??

It should be e with an acute accent followed by another e with a circumflex accent (as per Unicode 2.1).

The characters are also displayed incorrectly on Win32.