Hebrew letters displayed as ???

Question

Hi.
I wrote a small application in hebrew. when I tried to run the same application on a different computer, all the hebrew characters were displayed as ??? instead of what they should be.
the font I use is: final static public Font theFont = new java.awt.Font("SansSerif",0,16);
also, I forgot to mention I'm using swing, if that has anything to do with it.
thanks.
ziv.

Answer 1

Try this.
(On my computer at hand, for example, the font "SansSerif" is not installed.)
import java.awt.*;
public class TestFont {
public static void main(String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception{
  String sample ="\u05D0";  //sample string: you can enlarge this.
  java.awt.Font[] fonts = java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAllFonts();
  int q=0;
   for (int i = 0; i < fonts.length; i++){
        System.out.println(fonts.getName());
System.out.println(fonts[i].getFontName());
System.out.println(fonts[i].getFamily());
System.out.print(" : ");
q = fonts[i].canDisplayUpTo(sample);
if ((q == -1) ||(q == sample.length())){
System.out.println("YES to all");
} else{
System.out.print("NO to ");
System.out.println(String.valueOf(q));
System.out.println();
}//end of for