JDK Version: 1.2beta4-I
OS: Solaris 2.6
Locale: C, zh, ja

Using Graphics2D.drawString to draw specified Unicode string cause Exception.
Following is a program to reproduce it.

============================CheckDrawer.java==================================
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.text.*;

public class CheckDrawer extends Canvas {
    static String s = "";
    
    public static void main(String args[]) {
if (args.length <= 0) {
return;
}
if (args[0].equals("1")) {
s = "\u3000\u3001\u3002\u30fb\u02c9\u02c7\u00a8\u3003\u3005\u2015";
} else {
s = "\u3001\u3002\u30fb\u02c9\u02c7\u00a8\u3003\u3005\u2015";
}
Frame f = new Frame("Check Drawer");
f.setSize(300, 300);
f.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
f.add("Center", new CheckDrawer());
f.show();
    }

    public CheckDrawer() {
    }

    public void paint(Graphics g) {
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
AttributedString as = new AttributedString(s);
AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();
at.setToTranslation(10.0,100.0);
g2.transform(at);
g2.drawString(as.getIterator(), 0.0f, 0.0f);
    }

}
===============================================================================
javac CheckDrawer.java
type "java CheckDrawer 2", it work well
type "java CheckDrawer 1", an exception generated:

Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Start or limit out of range.
        at sun.awt.font.GlyphArrayFactory.createExtended(Compiled Code)
        at java.awt.font.TextLine.getComponents(Compiled Code)
        at java.awt.font.TextLine.createLineFromText(Compiled Code)
        at java.awt.font.TextLine.standardCreateTextLine(Compiled Code)
        at java.awt.font.TextLayout.standardInit(Compiled Code)
        at java.awt.font.TextLayout.<init>(Compiled Code)
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawString(Compiled Code)
        at CheckDrawer.paint(Compiled Code)
        at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.handleEvent(Compiled Code)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Compiled Code)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Compiled Code)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Compiled Code)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Compiled Code)


jim.hu@prc 1998-06-08