Re: java and unicode

From: Glen Perkins (gperkins@netcom.com)
Date: Tue Feb 03 1998 - 17:01:50 EST


Leong Kok Yong wrote:

> You need to tweak your font.properties file to use a Unicode font and the
> font must contain the glyph for Hebrew. Also, you can draw it on Canvas
> but not a AWT widget like button or menu i think, correct me if i'm wrong.
>

You're not wrong, but everyone doing i18n work in Java should be using the new
JFC ("swing") replacements for the old AWT components. I have no trouble using
mixed C, J, & K in menus, on buttons, etc. on a US Win95 machine. BiDi is coming
as part of the Java2D API, which will be part of the core in Java 1.2.

__Glen Perkins__



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