Chinese Characters in JFrame Titlebar

Hi, we have created a application, mainly intended for chinese users. Based on the user's choice the application will start up with the appropriate resource bundle. However, while using the chinese resource bundle, everything is working perfectly, except that the JFrame/JDialog titles are not showing the chinese characters. Can anyone please help me out on this?
Thanx in advance,
Regards,
Debopam.

From all the information I've read (since I had the same problem) the titles for JFrames can only be viewed in foreign characters when you're running on the foreign OS. A couple of people overcame it by writing their own Frame code, but if you're running on XP you can just install Microsoft's AppLocale (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/apploc.mspx).

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================================================
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char[3 ] = 10
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import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;
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StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
try {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("testbig5.txt");
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Reader in = new BufferedReader(isr);
int ch;
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buffer.append((char)ch);
in.close();
return buffer.toString();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
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testbig5.txt is a text file that contains big5 encoding characters.
"Kai (big5.eten.3.10-1)" is the only chinese font in my system, and I can use it to display chinese characters in netscape. And the file testbig5.txt can also be displayed in netscape correctly.
I have also tried to use font.properties.zh_TW_Big5 but still no success.
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cor-el,
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When I do the same load using BODI, I get funny characters.
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Error when transferring data; communication error when analyzing
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I am trying to use the Report Generation Toolkit for Microsoft Office under LabVIEW 8.0. I would like to use Chinese characters for the headings of the columns using a 2D array of the headings and the Excel Easy Table. When I generate the report, the text of the headings appears to be jumbled and not encoding correctly.
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Hi,
what you describe reminded me of a bug fix in the Report Generation Toolkit 2012 :
339092
Using the "Append Table to Report" VI to add strings of Cyrillic font to a table in an MS Word report results in gibberish being added to the report.
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/09D6DE5170B3C0BD86257A2B004CFD20
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Aurelie

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Background:
We're using RH 9 (latest patch) on Windows 7 machine.
We document in English and then the RH project gets localized into many diff languages and we use that to generate CHM, and Printed outputs.
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In the Chinese language, in printed output, the right border of most tables exeeds well beyond the margin.
Here's what the localized table looks like in the RH editor:
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We use Across Systems for our localization tool, and I've verified that our translators are not messing with the table properties at all; only the text is exposed. One interesting difference I've noticed from other languages, is that Chinese characters do not contain a true space or period characters when we get them back from localization. This makes sentences essentially a really long string of unbroken characters, and I suspect this somehow pushes the generated tables to wide extremes in printed output.
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I've tried setting the width in RH to a specific size and regenerating. Still doesn't help.
I've added in space character and doing that does cause lines to wrap in some cases, but not in all. But I shouldn't have to do this.
I've tried to create a VBA macro in Word to size the tables, but couldn't get it to work.
What I need:
I need to somehow globally force all the tables' text strings to wrap once they reaches the right margin no mater what, even if the line does not contain space characters. Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere, either on the RH side or the Word side that can do this for these long strings of characters?
I really hope someone else has figured out how to deal with this because last time I did this, I had to go through approximately 500 tables and manually do a very convoluted workaround dragging the table handle in Print layout mode back to the right margin to get the table to wrap appropriately. It was a major pain in neck!
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I wonder the Format Tables macros on my site could be adapted?
http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/word/word_macros.htm
If not, I have used Macro Express to format tables in Rh. No reason it could not be used in Word.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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