JDK-4780053 : Some of font characters display wrong on RedHat 8.0 within zh_CN locale
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.awt:i18n
  • Affected Version: 1.4.2
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • OS: linux
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2002-11-16
  • Updated: 2019-05-17
  • Resolved: 2003-10-21
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-4775818 - font.properties files for Redhat8.0 zh_CN/zh_TW/ko
Description
Some of font characters display wrong when locale of zh_CN is supported in RedHat 8.0.

Reproduce steps:
For Mantis PIT testing for build b08 
(/net/jano.sfbay/export/disk12/i18n/ws/jdk1.4.2-PIT/binaries)
1) Loading CharView testcase on RedHat 8.0 within zh_CN locale
2) Choose test field: TextField
3) Some of font characters don't display with empty boxes, but other test fields (Button, Label, ...) have not this problem.
Comments
EVALUATION gb2312 fonts, the only no-unicode zh_CN fonts existing on the system, are being used for the fontcharset entries in redhat8.0, the "missing characters" reported in this bugreport are those "no-gb2312, characters, so this is the expected "limitation" of our current implementation. To fix this problem we need to use "iso10646" fonts (therefor "utf8" as the bm encoding) for the textarea/textfield components, may consider for tiger. ###@###.### 2002-11-25 from 1.5, the xawt is the default tookkit which means motif textarea/textfield is no longer the default peered component for awt and it has exactly the same rendering capability as swing jtextfield/jtextarea does. close this bug as "will not fix" ###@###.### 2003-10-21
21-10-2003