SYSTEM INFORMATION:
Win32

The problem is when a wide character like "W" displays as the first character
in a line, "W" will not be displayed properly, left partial of the character
is missing. 

Following is the testcase which demonstrates the problem:
TEST CASE:

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


public class FontBugExample
{
    public static final Font DEF_FONT = new Font( "SanSerif", Font.PLAIN, 11
);

    public static void main(String [] args)
    {
        JFrame f = new JFrame();

        JTextField jt = new JTextField("Welcome");
        jt.setFont(DEF_FONT);

        f.getContentPane().add(new JLabel("Part of the W is being renderered
in the previous                			 Cell"),BorderLayout.NORTH);
        f.getContentPane().add(jt, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

        f.setSize(400,100);
        f.setVisible(true);

        f.addWindowListener( new WindowAdapter()
		{
			public void windowClosing( WindowEvent e )
			{
				System.exit(0);
			}
		} );
    }
} 


JUSTIFICATION:

We urgently need to ship a fix to this problem to get the issue resolved
with our customer.  Our primary system is a large enterprise financial system with a Web interface written in Java, using 1.2.2.04. It is an expensive top of the range system and our customers are _very_ demanding. 

I realise that this appears to be a cosmetic problem, but the customer
involved is digging their heels in and is demanding a fix. They refuse to
use another font (they are a Swedish company, so maybe the problem looks
worse in Swedish?).