TextField Input > \u00FF

I am involved in writing a chat application (JDK 1.1.8, Win 2000 (US), loaded Japanese fonts, Locale, etc) and can now display Japanese chars in everything but an input TextField. I cannot paste a char from Character Map or from the IME. I can input Unicode escape sequences & parse them to output chars to my output TextArea or use println("\u30A6"). Anyone know how I can input chars above \u00FF?

Thanks,
Steve O.

I know that the java2d api in java 1.2 allows for the Font() to use any font on the local system. However, it seems to be limited only to applications. I hope that helps.