Chinese characters displayed with Arial

Hello,
I have got a very strange problem. I have a java application (I'm using Swing) that uses Chinese characters. The characters are displayed correctly.
During runtime the characters turn into squares. There is no regularity or specific action I do that triggers this event.
There are two problems:
1. As I mentioned, the characters turn into squares
2. The Chinese characters should NOT be displayed, as I am using "Arial", which does not contain Unicode characters.
Some suppose that the glyph cache contains - for what reason ever - the Chinese characters. Consequently, though using arial you can display Unicode characters. Then, at an unknown moment the garbage collector clears the glyph cache so that the characters turn into squares.
Is this theory logical? What other causes could there be for this problem? :-S
Thanks...!
Greets... Simon :-)

Simon1187 wrote:
Hello,
I have got a very strange problem. I have a java application (I'm using Swing) that uses Chinese characters. The characters are displayed correctly. In your IDE which has a specific font selected...
During runtime the characters turn into squares. There is no regularity or specific action I do that triggers this event. In your running application which does not...
There are two problems:
1. As I mentioned, the characters turn into squaresThey don't.
2. The Chinese characters should NOT be displayed, as I am using "Arial", which does not contain Unicode characters.Which is exactly why you see what you see.
Some suppose that the glyph cache contains - for what reason ever - the Chinese characters. Consequently, though using arial you can display Unicode characters. Then, at an unknown moment the garbage collector clears the glyph cache so that the characters turn into squares.
Is this theory logical? What other causes could there be for this problem? :-S
No. You're trying to display something the operating system and JVM can't display, and they show you the only thing they can show, a placeholder.

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