Unicode Character Map

Hi-ya
I want to craate a unicode character map much like the one in windows. You choose a font and it shows you all the characters.
First of all I would have thought this would exist, either with swing or java but I can't find it. Has anyone seen one in the wild?
Secondly how would the iteration alogrithmn look like?
I found some samples at unicode.org but they seem way oversized for what I want to do. This is the applet from unicode that I am talking about:
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/Normalizer.html
Is there no easy - peasy way to go through all the unicode code points in a font? Like I said either in swt or swing.
thanks.

You haven't seen the Font2DTest demo program?
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