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Unicode line-drawing characters - possible Java bug?

843785Mar 7 2009 — edited Apr 16 2009

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.

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