Displaying Asian characters in an AWT applet

I want to display texts in different Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). The localized texts are correctly displayed by the applet if I use a font like Arial Unicode MS that supports all Asian Unicode characters. But I can not use this font for display the text because even on a Windows PC I can not be sure that this font is available. The alternative seems to be to use language dependent different fonts but I could not find comprehensive Information which font to use with which language. I thought also about the alternative to use a logical font name and adjust the font.properties file but the applet has to work also with the Microsoft JVM and I could not find any information about changing the font.properties for this VM. I also think that not every user of this applet is willing to adjust the font.properties. What is the best solution to support multiple Asian languages in the output of an applet?
I am new to the problem of localization of Java applets so maybe this question sounds very simple for more experienced programmers.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Roland

mswanson, I sincerely appreciate you posting your
solution here for all of us to read. However, I
wouldn't summarize downloading and installing a 24 mb
font as "doing nothing", as you seem to state here.I could have worded it better. When I said, "do nothing except..." I was refering to the font.properties file. In fact, if you re-read the previous sentence you will see I started it with, "wrt font.properties...". "wrt" means "With Respect To".
Also, the referenced page does not provide a link for
downloading the font, as it seems to imply.My posting implied no such thing.
So, anybody know if this is possible for the Arial
Unicode MS font or any other comparable font? Any
other ideas addressing the same problem?The HTML page I linked to contains a paragraph, "Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, 2003 Fonts" and its first sentence contains a link to get the font - and you can derive all of your legal answers from that link as well (microsoft.com).
Cheers.

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