Java Glossary : Chinese

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Chinese: Chinese has a large alphabet of characters. Either you must have a native Unicode font, or a number of 8-bit fonts stitched together to cover the needed characters. With NT, Unicode is the way to go. If you are using a version of Java prior to 1.2, that is your only option. With Windows 95/98, you must stitch. It is not necessary to call Locale.setDefault(). Set up font.properties.zh_TW to include the correct fonts and use setFont with one of the defined "virtual" fonts from the font.properties.zh_TW file. If you have a native Unicode font installed, you can setFont that directly.
For more information about understanding font.properties file, you can download an older article that still has useful information. It doesn't include all the latest twists of the font.properties file, but it should help you.

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