Thanks for following up on my question.
I use notepad++ to edit the source. To try out what you mentioned, I just typed up a simple
test class to display a Label within a Frame. Made sure notepad++ was using Cp1252, compiled it with "-encoding Cp1252", ran it and the window comes up unable to display the Cp1252 characters in the Label. Only in the test mock-ups am I using the characters literally in the code.
I am basically trying to figure out the difference that allows these charcters to be displayed sometimes and other times not, within the same application, and the same 'window'. Even within this one window that is failing to display the Cp1252 characters in a Label object, where the
string is passed in... a similar string, containing similar Cp1252-specific characters is able to display them when passed to the Frame's constructor as a title. Could there be a method callable on the Label object that would force the display of these characters?
Regarding the use of AWT components, I am attempting to maintain an application that was developed, well, more than 10 years ago.