Problem with Arabic in awt

Question

Hi all,
First off, I am forced to use JDK 1.18.
I am having problem in displaying arabic, both through AWT as well as at the console. My desktop (Windows XP) supports arabic.
The following does not do much. It was just supposed to show how it works. It displays rubbish at both the console, as well as in the frame title/button label. Even when I changed the button label to a unicode character, it came out as an empty square. It works fine with an english locale.
public class Driver {
public static void main (String args []) {
java.util.Locale newLocale = java.util.Locale("ar", "AE");
java.util.ResourceBundle menus = ResourceBundle.getBundle(PROP_FILE_PREFIX, newLocale);
System.out.println(menus.getString("MainMenu"));
java.awt.Frame frame = new java.awt.Frame(menus.getString ("MainMenu"));
frame.setLocale(newLocale);
frame.setSize(200, 300);
java.awt.Button button1 = new java.awt.Button();
button1.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Arabic Transparent",0,12));
button1.setLabel(menus.getString("MainMenu"));
//button1.setLabel("\u0627");
frame.add(button1);
frame.show();
The contents of the property file I was trying to read is:
MainMenu = ������� ��������
Channels = �������
SmartCardInformation = ������� �� ������� ������
ParentsControl = ����� �����
Languages = ������
Setup = ����� ��������

Answer 1

The first thing you need to do is to run native2ascii on your properties file (it comes with the JDK).