Font display of applets that are viewed on different platforms

[willemjav]

I created four font types to display some info text over an image slide show applet:
smallFont = new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, 12);
normalFont = new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, 16);
largeFont = new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, 18);
verylargeFont = new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, 24);
Things look all right when I view my applet on my Mac computer (because I did the programming using a Mac). But when viewing the applet on a PC things change dramatically (e.g. accent signs etc. change totally).
What to do to make fonts look the same on different platforms?

willem

[willemjav]

would this code do it (have no pc, so can´t see)

smallFont = new Font("Times Unicode", Font.PLAIN, 12);
normalFont = new Font("Times Unicode", Font.PLAIN, 16);
largeFont = new Font("Times Unicode", Font.PLAIN, 18);
verylargeFont = new Font("Times Unicode", Font.PLAIN, 24);

willemjav

[hardwired]

In the Font api comments section see the 5 paragraphs under the header Physical and Logical Fonts. Paragraph 3 mentions why this happens and the faq link in the last paragraph gives alternate solutions.

[willemjav]

Hardwired I did visit the font-api (I always visit the api when using a new/ unknown class) and taught “jesus, do I need to read all this just to get some accents right?”.
UTF-8 or UTF-16 is the magic key. I probably have to do sometime like: let the text of the JTextArea be in one of these two formats (because the text displaying of the applet happens in that component only).
I am having a hard time to find out where to start, this is (again) an overwhelming issue. Is there something “simple” to say to JTextArea please use UTF-8 or UTF-16?

Before I continue programming the photo-prepare-application I have to pay some attention to my website and its applet concerning the font display. I do have the positioning of the multi-textline working (still dragging outside the JTextArea because I have to start learning the glass pane fully),
The web-page looks fine on my mac-book but on a pc it is a real mess. So I will start with the text of the JTextArea but I should look also into the HTML font and looks (the accents etc. do appear but font and size is different in each browser….. disasters see WILLEM DRAGSTRA WEB SITE from a pc).

willemjav