Unicode line-drawing characters - possible Java bug?

Question

Hi all, I am trying to draw a box using line drawing characters in UTF-8. I make the UTF-8 box file in Microsoft Word where it looks aligned. However, when I run my Java program to display the box in a JTextArea, it is all out of alignment like below. Is this a bug in Java that prevents it from displaying aligned line-drawing characters? I am tearing my hair out over this so your help is much appreciated.
Regards,
Rianmal.
╔═══════════════════╗
║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║
║ ║
║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║
║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║
║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║
║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║
║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║
║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║
║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║
║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║
╚═══════════════════╝

Answer 1

sabre,
Looks like monospaced isn't found on windows (vista)... So I used "Courier New" instead.
Sabre20090412a.java is saved with encoding=UTF-8 (i.e. CP1252) instead of the default ASCII, which doesn't support the extended characters.
package forums;
import java.awt.Font;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
public class Sabre20090412a
  private static final String text;
  static {
    String t;
    t =  "╔═══════════════════╗\n"; // LINE 12
    t += "║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║\n";
    t += "║                   ║\n";
    t += "║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║\n";
    t += "║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║\n";
    t += "║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║\n";
    t += "║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║\n";
    t += "║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║\n";
    t += "║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║\n";
    t += "║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║\n";
    t += "║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║\n";
    t += "╚═══════════════════╝\n"; // LINE 23
    text = t;
  public static void createAndShowGUI() {
    final JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test");
    final JTextArea ta = new JTextArea();
    ta.setFont(new Font("Courier New", Font.PLAIN, 14)); // <<<<< Note font-name="Courier New"
    ta.setText(text);
    frame.setContentPane(ta);
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    frame.setVisible(true);
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        createAndShowGUI();
build (NOTE the -encoding utf-8)*
cd /d C:\Java\home\src\forums
"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\bin\javac.exe" -encoding utf-8 -Xlint -d C:\Java\home\classes -cp c:\java\home\src;.;C:\Java\home\classes C:\Java\home\src\forums\Sabre20090412a.java
run
cd /d C:\Java\home\src\forums
"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\bin\java.exe" -cp C:\Java\home\classes forums.Sabre20090412a
References:
http://www.google.com/search?q=warning%3A+unmappable+character+for+encoding+Cp1252&hl=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 #says 1252== IANIA UTF-8 except
http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl #page for 2500 onwards
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5185338 #-encoding
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/2D-Graphics-GUI/Listallavailablefontsproviedinthesystem.htm
Roedy Green rocks!
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/font.html#AVAILABLEJ
http://mindprod.com/applet/fontshower.html
Thanx for the fish!
Cheers. Keith.