Some country native characters in AWT components

Question

Hi All,
I have problem with visualization some native characters on AWT components. For instance, when I put on the Frame some Labels components, then I can't see correct some special polish native characters, I can only see some boxes. It seems the same with some other AWT components with a text entry.
This problem is only in GUI, because some other issues like Strings and Stream processing works good.
(I tested it both on WinXP and Linux SuSE 9.1 with the same result)
Thanks in advance for some help
Krzysztof

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);
}