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I'm trying to realize a simple software that should use both standard european characters and japanese characters (hiragana / katakana / kanji), but I'm experiencing the following problem. I would like to make the japanese text bigger, but if I set a higher number as font dimension I start seeing squares instead of characters, while if I keep standard dimension everything is fine. How can I see bigger japanese fonts?

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  • I almost forgot. I'm programming in Java, I'm showing a GUI using swing, the text is saved in UTF-8 format. In case this helps :) – user1221297 May 13 '14 at 15:32
  • I'm now showing text in a simple text field, but I can switch to another component in case it is necessary or better.. – user1221297 May 13 '14 at 15:33
  • http://blog.lingualift.com/10-beautiful-japanese-fonts/ – Andrea Ligios May 13 '14 at 15:43
  • I don't know why, but I was thinking that installing the fonts would automatically make them selected in my software (kind of automatic best choice). I already had Meiryo installed since I'm on a Windows 8 Platform, I just had to choose it in my IDE. Anyway, just write a normal answer if you want it to be selected as final answer. Thank you for the help ;) – user1221297 May 13 '14 at 16:11

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You need to install a font able to display Japanese characters,

for example one of this,

and then set it to be used by your components, replacing the default one (that is dependent on your Operative System / Look and Feel).

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