Displaying Asian Characters/Other Fonts

I'm having trouble trying to display other fonts/asian fonts in my SWING application. I know this has probably be asked to death, but here's my scenario.
I don't want to modify the font.properties file if possible because this is a SWING applet. I'm trying to use the "Arial Unicode MS" font from Windows to display some unicode characters, but all I get is the dreaded square boxes.
I've tried to access the GraphicsEnvironment.GetLocal.... but I get a security error for a missing class (I'm using JRE1.3 on Windows2k).
Here's a snippet of my code:
UIManager.put("Label.font", new Font("Arial Unicode MS", Font.PLAIN, 40));
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test Window");
final JLabel label = new JLabel("\u88B9 alcsnjdfd \uBA85\uC554\uBE44");
frame.getContentPane().add(label);
What am I doing wrong?

HI,
this article might help you:
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/04/12/internationalization.html?page=1

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