Several people have commented on the problem of displaying arbitrary
Unicode characters in Java programs.
From this very recent book,
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on p. 206, we find
... Windows 95 platforms provide partial support for Unicode,
including a partial Unicode font (which omits the Han
Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and others). Also note
that the java.io.PrintStream class (of which System.out is an
instance) discards the top 8 bits of 16-bit Unicode
characters. Thus, at least in current implementations,
"standard output" supports only ASCII and Latin-1 characters.
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