On Win32 platform (tested NT4.0 ja), following SJIS code is converted to different unicode than MicroSoft mapping. These are identail character, but has two different character code.

        These 5 character is recognized incorrectly yet.

                                        MS-     JAVA
        Name                    SJIS    UNICODE UNICODE 
        ------------------------------------------------
        palarell sign           0x8161  0x2225  0x2016
        fullwidth minus         0x817c  0xff0d  0x2212
        cent sign               0x8191  0xffe0  0x00a2
        pound sign              0x8192  0xffe1  0x00a3
        mathematical not sign   0x81ca  0xffe2  0x00ac

palarell sign and fullwidth minus are different character conversion
between MS-Windows and Java.
Other 3 characters are mapped to Latin-1 category by Java, but
mapped to FullWidth Form category by MS-Windows.

Sample Program as follows. Upper testfield is awt.TextField,
Lower is awt.swing.JTextField. When pushed enter key in each textfield,
the text it has is displayed into TextArea, Label and System.out.

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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.swing.JTextField;

class GetSetString extends Frame implements ActionListener {
  JTextField jtf;
  TextField tf;
  TextArea ta;
  Label l;
  Button b;
  Panel p;

  public void setup() {
    // initialize components
    String initData = "\u00a2\u00a3\u00ac\u2016\u2212\uff06\uff3c";
    tf = new TextField(initData, 20);
    jtf = new JTextField(initData, 20);
    ta = new TextArea(2,20);
    l = new Label("text");
    p = new Panel();
 
    // layout setting
    p.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    p.add(tf, "North");
    p.add(ta, "Center");
    p.add(l, "South");
    setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    add(p, "North");
    add(jtf, "South");

    // set components' attribute
    tf.addActionListener(this);
    jtf.addActionListener(this);
    ta.setEditable(false);
  }

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    String dataText;
    if (e.getSource() == jtf)
      dataText = jtf.getText();
    else
      dataText = tf.getText();
    ta.setText( dataText );
    l.setText( dataText );
    System.out.println( "data: "+dataText );
  }

  public static void main( String[] args ) {
    GetSetString obj = new GetSetString();
    obj.setup();
    obj.addWindowListener( new WindowAdapter(){
      public void windowClosing( WindowEvent e ){ System.exit(0);}
    });
    obj.pack();
    obj.show();

  }
}

koushi.takahashi@japan 1998-03-18