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I don't get blank characters.. They are garbled, seemingly 'split' into two separate characters. I'm sure a screengrab will be able to explain it better.

Sounds like Java is using UTF-8 for fonts, but the fonts are 8-bit, perhaps? I don't know much about Windows, and nothing about how its font mechanism works, so I can't actually be any practical help, I'm afraid.

I think others have working Java fonts on Windows, though. Anyone?
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