Arabic letters are boxes

Hi,
I have this app that loads a ResourceBundle and reads from a properties file for all of the properties that map to the GUI widgets. The GUI widgets' text are extracted from this prop file. I am having a problem with this in that when I try to display these values then some of the Arabic symbols are a box. Now I have the entire unicode chart from www.unicode.org and these are the codes that I am using. I also have jdk1.3.0_02. Could someone please help?
Thank you,
Jay.

Jay-
I suspect that the font that you are using does not contain all the glyphs for the characters that you are trying to display. You could try and use another font like Bitstream Cyberbit or Arial Unicode MS. However, the issue that you run into with using external fonts not included with the Java Runtime is that now other users of your application need to have the proper font installed on their system to view the text correctly.
-David

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