Native2ascii tool

Question

i need to show the japanese text in my web application. this is how i am doing it.
first i develop my code on windows NT and then preapre a jar file and migrate it to unix server which will host the application.
in my windows NT , i convert the native characters to ascii using native2ascii tool and use these unicode characters in my properties file. every thing works fine and when i host the application on my windows NT machine , i could see the japanese text correctly.
now when i create jar file and migrate to unix server , the japanese characters get screwed up. why ? is it that the unicode characters are different on windows NT and unix server ? do i have to convert the characters on unix machine and use those unicode characters ? assuming that i did that , are these characters different from version of solaris machine to another ? should the jdk version be same ?
on my windows
java version "1.3.1_02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1_02-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1_02-b02, mixed mode)
on my unix server
java version "Solaris_JDK_1.2.2_12"
Solaris VM (build Solaris_JDK_1.2.2_12, native threads, sunwjit)
Thanks,
bala

Answer 1

if i were you i will try this:
1. what's the encoding you are using for native2ascii, if it's SJIS, i will check first if i can browse some other web pages with SJIS encoding, so i can determine if it's only my wep application can't show jap text correctly in the unix box.
2.if your web browser cannot display jap text with SJIS encoding, then you need to install some fonts.
you can find some clue from the following link.
http://users.erols.com/eepeter/chinesecomputing/programming/java.html
you can test your jap text by changing the following sample code with an unicode for your jap string
Displaying Chinese
Finding Chinese Fonts Java 2 allows the programmer to directly access the fonts on the machine. The code sample below gets a list of all the fonts on the system, and then checks each font to see if it can display a sample Chinese string. Matching fonts are printed. Variations of the below code can be used to automatically find Chinese fonts and set the font of the Swing components accordingly. A bug in the JVM currently also lists all the logical fonts, whether they support Chinese or not, so I remove them from the list.
// Determine which fonts support Chinese here ...
Font[] allfonts = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAllFonts();
int fontcount = 0;
String chinesesample = "\u4e00";
for (int j = 0; j < allfonts.length; j++) {
if (allfonts[j].canDisplayUpTo(chinesesample) == chinesesample.length()) {
if (fontcount == 0) {
ctextarea.setFont(new Font(allfonts[j].getFontName(), Font.PLAIN, 12));
if (allfonts[j].getFontName().startsWith("dialog") == false &&
allfonts[j].getFontName().startsWith("monospaced") == false &&
allfonts[j].getFontName().startsWith("sansserif") == false &&
allfonts[j].getFontName().startsWith("serif") == false) {
cfontchooser.addItem(allfonts[j].getFontName());
fontcount++;
}