Internationalization: JOptionPane distorts options when Locale is changed

Hi,
We are planning to make our application (a Swing client developed using jdk1.4.2) support i18n (internationalization) - esp. japanese characters.
Magically changing the start-up script (a batch file) with "-Duser.language=ja" did the magic. And now i am able to enter japanese characters into the Text Fields, Text Areas, etc.
But, the problem I see, so far, is that JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION (for which, String "yes", "no" are displayed) are getting distorted showing square boxes instead.
Fonts used is Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, 12);
Can I know the reason for distortion of JOptionPane's options during display? Does JOptionPane not support SansSerif Font (and/or its size)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Pramodh.

Hi Fahle,
Thanks for the response. I appreciate it.
Yes, I forgot to mention that FileChooser displays proper and real Japanese Strings, but somehow ONLY JOptionPane distorts the Japanese chars and displays some funky square brackets.
Infact, as far I understand goes, any String coming from with JRE (i mean String not defined by the application or the user) should be displayed in the locale specific langauge. Like JFileChooser has "Open", "Cancel" on its window, they come from within JRE. And, "yes", "no" options on JOptionPane dialog box come from with JRE.
But I am yet to figure out why JUST JOptionPane is distorting the locale String.
I would appreciate if you have any more information to convey. Any one else has any idea of why it is behaving that way?
Thanks,
pramodh.

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