FONT problems with UNICODE - URGENT

Question

i'm trying to present text in different languages, like english, greek or cyrillic and so on. i want to work with the Arial Unicode MS font, that is installed on my system and which DOES appear in the getAvailableFonts() list!!!
But when i try to display a greek text i see not all glyphs correctly. What have i to do??
Have I still to set up my font.properties file and if so how can i manage this
thanx a lot

Answer 1

To me, it looks as if your problem is that you're only calling setFont on "this".
That's only going to set it for the top level frame, and doesn't always do it for every individual component. The easy way to get around this is to go berserk with the setFont call. Set it on anything (heck, set it on your dog if it makes you feel any better)! ;D
The slightly harder but smarter way to do this is to write a recursive function that drills down your component list.
public void setFontRecursively(Font myFont, Component comp) {
   comp.setFont(myFont);
   if (comp instanceof Container) {
      Component[] childComps = ((Container)comp).getComponents();
      if (childComps != null) {
         for (int i=0; i < childComps.length; i++) {
            setFontRecursively(myFont, childComps);
That should basically cover anything bar popup menus and drop-down submenus. You have to recall this as they appear, or they don't get the font straight off.
Hope that helps!
Martin Hughes