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The Indian languages is shows as square , not as languages in the property files, for eample if we create a file named message_ml_IN.properties and enter the following key account.created.body.account.created=\u0D15\u0D47\u0D30\u0D33 \u0D2C\u0D41\u0D15\u0D4D\u0D15\u0D4D\u200C \u0D38\u0D4D\u0D31\u0D4D\u0D31\u0D4B\u0D31\u0D3F\u0D32\u0D4D\u200D \u0D28\u0D3F\u0D19\u0D4D\u0D19\u0D33\u0D4D\u200D \u0D12\u0D30\u0D41 \u0D05\u0D17\u0D24\u0D4D\u0D35\u0D02 \u0D0E\u0D1F\u0D41\u0D24\u0D4D\u0D24\u0D3F\u0D30\u0D3F\u0D15\u0D41\u0D28\u0D4D\u0D28\u0D41 then in the editor square is shown, not the malayalam langauge, , but ofcouse if i type hindi language , then it is shown correct.
Created attachment 88796 [details] properties file
What's your encoding in project properties -> Sources -> Encoding?
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Created attachment 88860 [details] windows language support in control pannel
Yes encoding is UTF-8, please see the attached project and property files in English, Malayalam and Hindi languages also see the attached screen shot image (netbeans_error.jpg), my OS is windows XP SP3 with language support enabled for all right to left languages and asian languages, see the attached screen shot of control pannel-->Regional and Language Options-->Language Tab (windows_language_support_enabled.jpg) the Malayalam font that is shipped with Windows SP2 and 3 is named "Kartika" (kartika.ttf) in windows\fonts folder. other Unicode fonts are also available from free software movements, one of them is named as varamozhi (https://sites.google.com/site/cibu/) which use unicode font named "AnjaliOldLipi" (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/varamozhi/0%20Installer%20for%20AnjaliOldLipi/1.03.03/AnjaliFontInstaller1.03. 03.exe), which is better rendering and smoothing full unicode keys supported.
I would suppose that the required Malayalam font is not installed in the JRE. Please, check that other Java applications can display the Malayalam font, i.e. not only the native applications. I hope the following links will be useful: http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/2D-Graphics-GUI/Listallavailablefontsproviedinthesystem.htm http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/faq.jsp#desktop-rendering http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/fontconfig.html Also, you might try to play with fonts in Tools/Options/Fonts&Colors