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Hi Kevin,

I'm not a pro, but here's how I done it:
there are 2 ways to get the thing work -
1. set the locale of your display area (e.g. JTextArea, JTextField) to a
chinese locale.
       e.g.   setLocale(new Locale("zh", "CN"))  or setLocale(new
Locale("zh", TW"))

    if you are using Windows98 or NT, the default font used for displaying
the chinese characters would be SIMSUN.TTF
    if you don't have the font, then you probably would like to use the 2nd
way.

2. If you have some other chinese fonts installed on your system, like MS
Song, MS Hei etc,
     you may like to set the font of the JTextArea or JTextField to the
font.
     e.g.   setFont(new Font("MS Song", 0, 12))

If you are using method 1, you can substitute the SIMSUN.TTF with other
chinese font,
but beware that some fonts support traditional chinese only, and some
support simplified chinese only.

Using the above 2 methods, it is not necessary to open a chinese viewer
while running the app.

For mapping of  chinese characters to unicodes, you may use some unicode
converter provided by some chinese input software like NJStar Communicator.
Or you may like to try using the "native2ascii" command to convert  all your
chinese characters (in a file) to unicodes.
For more information regarding native2ascii, check up the java help
Internationalization - tools.

Hope it helps.
Lois

Kevin Wang <kwang@mks.com> wrote in message
news:380DFDEE.2BABE215@mks.com...
> Hi Lois
>
> Thanks for the help.  However, I still have few doubts if you don't mind:
>
> 1. All I'm doing is load characters from a text file and display them as
>     menu item names.  I've tried writing some characters in Unicode
>     (for each character I used this style:: \u5C71), but when I load the
>     file in my Java application these characters showed up as question
>     marks (?).  I had a Chinese viewer opend while I did this but
>     obviously it didn't work.  You mentioned about providing chinese
>     font, do I have to do that, and how should I do that?
> 2. Is there a code mapping chart that shows the mapping of each
>     Chinese character (or characters of other language) to its
>     corresponding Unicode.
>
> Thanks again
>
> KW
>
>
>
> Lois Neo wrote:
>
> > I've not really tried that out, but I've seen examples on this which
write
> > the characters as Unicodes.
> > If you write in Unicode, you just need to provide a chinese font for the
> > component which displays the characters.
> > I guess if you write in chinese characters, you will also need a chinese
> > input software to be running along with your program in order for you to
see
> > the chinese characters. and not all chinese input software would work
for
> > this.
> >
> > Hope it helps.
> > Lois
> >
> > Kevin Wang <kwang@mks.com> wrote in message
news:380DC841.FE608D5@mks.com...
> > > Hi Neo:
> > >
> > > I'm new to displaying other language characters so I have a simple
> > question if
> > > you can help it would be great!
> > >
> > > I'm trying to load a generic text file (a properties file with keys
and
> > values)
> > > with
> > > characters in any language.  Once I loaded them into a properties
object I
> > > display
> > > them as menu items under a menu.  Anyway, since that text file is
generic
> > in any
> > >
> > > language, I'm just wondering if the characters in the file should be
in
> > unicode,
> > > OR
> > > can it just be written in the character of that language(e.g. if the
> > language is
> > >
> > > Chinese do I have to write them in unicode OR can I just write in
Chinese
> > > characters)?
> > >
> > > Thanks very much
> > >
> > > K W
> > >
>