Is it possible to write a GUI in Java that would display Japanese fonts correctly regardless of the language settings of the OS it's being run on?
I'd like to write a program which is able to do this but I'm not sure how to start going about this. Any advice would be a huge help!
解决方案
The language settings aren't the problem here. Fonts are.
Java certainly can handle Japanese text, no matter what the system settings are, if the developer doesn't fall into the trap of depending on the platform default encoding by using things like FileReader, or new String(byte[]).
But to actually display the Japanese text, you need a font that has Japanese characters, and fonts are not part of Java. Depending on the OS, Japanese-capable fonts may be part of the default installation, or the user may be prompted to install them as needed, or they may have to be installed manually.