Chinese texts in Java

Hi.
I'm using JBuilder to develop a gui in java.
All is in English and now I wan't to be able to do it in Chinese as well.
I have created resource files for the chinese text in a dialogue box, but all I get is awkward characters.
I have also tried this:
Locale chLocale = new Locale("zh", "CN");
this.setLocale(chLocale);
in the class implementing the dialogue - result: no change.
Obiously I haven't got it, when reading manuals, specs and howtos it seems very easy!
Please help me.
BR
Thomas

You shouldn't need it if you have the font.properties.zh. If font.properties.zh_CN does not exist, it then looks for font.properties.zh. If that doesn't exist it uses font.properties.
font.properties.zh is Simplified Chinese. (GB2312)
font.properties.zh_TW is Traditional Chinese. (BIG5)
As long as you have font.properties.zh, Simplified should work.
Assuming that this is correct, make sure that you have Simplified Chinese fonts installed on your system and that they are the GB2312 charset.
The local of the OS must be zh_CN, or you have to set that property as a java parameter when u start java.
I have done this in Linux, we changed the Locale of the OS and rebooted whenever we did a language change. I am not sure how you do it in windows, we ended up writing scripts to replace font.properties with font.properties.zh.
The easy thing is to just copy font.properties.zh to font.properties (backup the one you are replacing). This might be all you need for an overall solution. If you plan on switching between Japanese, and Chinese, it will require more work. You could merge those 3 font.properties, but the issue then becomes that some of the languages have the same unicode character but are drawn slightly different in Japanese than in Chinese.

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