Is it possible to display more than one language in Suns Java 2 Runtime Environments?
The short answer is yes. The long answer needs to look at which languages you want to display at the same time, and how your application selects fonts. • It is quite common for a group of languages to share a small common character set – for example, the Western European languages can be written in the ISO 8859-1 character set. If you only need to display languages within such a group, you usually don’t need to do anything – it will just work. • If the languages you need to display are all supported by the Lucida font family, and your application only needs to run on Java 2 runtime environments that contain this font family, you can simply use fonts from that family. • If you need to support languages using separate character ranges, and your application selects fonts using logical font names, you need to create a font.properties file that supports all the languages. See the web page, Editing the font.properties Files, for details. • If you need to support languages using separate char
