RE: Weird problem with a Java program accessing AS/400 Unicode data, but failing to render Chinese characters

You may not have the font on your machine. Swing/awt will substitute a font that's "close". The substituted font on your machine may not have glyphs for the chinese characters. Check what's in your jre/lib/fonts directory vs what's in the developer's. Likely the jre/jdk he installed has gobs more fonts, and the font files are much larger.

You don't specify a font in your tester; you use the default for the JOptionPane. Looks like your developer specified a different font, or the default fonts are different on his machine.

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From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 2:01 PM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Weird problem with a Java program accessing AS/400 Unicode data, but failing to render Chinese characters

We're having a problem with a Java program displaying Chinese characters
in a Unicode field.

I've posted a more detailed description of the problem here, complete with screen shots and a source listing of a test program:

http://www.java-forums.org/advanced-java/66813-weird-issue-chinese-characters.html#post315404

but basically, it appears that on a Chinese developer's machine (in China), everything works just fine. Yet on my machine, I get "substitute boxes" instead of Chinese characters, even though neither Firefox, nor a test Java application I wrote using Swing, has any trouble at all displaying the very same Chinese characters.

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