Logical font special characters in AWT Choice

Question

Font FONT=new Font("Dialog",Font.PLAIN,12);
String TEXT="re\u0123istr\u0113tiem";
TextArea textarea=new TextArea();
textarea.setFont(FONT);
textarea.setText(TEXT);
this.add(textarea);
Choice choice=new Choice();
choice.setFont(FONT);
choice.addItem(TEXT);
this.add(choice);Result is that text in textarea is correct but dropdown menu constains odd squares. ( http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/668/dialogip6.png )
Why is this, even the font is exactly same and font contains all needed characters? Same problem occures in multiple systems I've tested. Same squares also occures in MenuItem components. But in most cases all characters are displayed correctly, like in textarea above or when using graphics.drawString(string) directly.

Answer 1

Have you tried doing this in Swing? Works for me:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class FontExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                buildGUI();
    static void buildGUI() {
        Font font=new Font("Dialog",Font.PLAIN,12);
        String text="re\u0123istr\u0113tiem";
        JTextArea textarea=new JTextArea();
        textarea.setFont(font);
        textarea.setText(text);
        JComboBox combo=new JComboBox(new String[]{text});
        combo.setFont(font);
        JFrame f = new JFrame("FontExample");
        Container cp = f.getContentPane();
        cp.add(combo, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        cp.add(textarea, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        f.pack();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
}