I have been running a test case
that prints strings in several different fonts in
plain, italic, bold, and bold-italic. I am seeing
a lot of incorrect results when I run it with the
beta4 and fcs builds. However, the fonts look
pretty much normal when I run using java_g in
JDK1.2beta4.

When I run under:
/usr/local/java/jdk1.2/solaris/bin/java
which is JDK-1.2beta4-K according to the
-fullversion info, I see the following problem:

All of the Helvetica, Times Roman, Courier,
and ZapfDingbats fonts show up as
Courier, and all the different styles (plain,
italic, etc.) appear as bold.

When I run under java_g using
/usr/local/java/jdk1.2/solaris/bin/java_g
things look pretty much as they ought to.

However, when I run under java_g using
/usr/local/java/jdk1.2fcs/solaris/bin/java_g
which is java full version "JDK-1.2fcs-C",
the fonts look wrong again.

They also look wrong using my local workspace
/java/jdk/ws/awt/echawkes/jdk12fc/build/solaris/bin
This is a descendant of the 1.2fcs C-build.

I am running all these tests from my local machine,
gradgrind, which is an Ultra-1 running Solaris 2.6.

One more odd fact that may or may not be relevant:
in the case where the fonts show up "normal", the
frame I bring up to draw them in has the wrong
background. In fact, both the fonts and the frame
appear exactly the same as they do when I run the
jre in /bin/java. This version of the jdk uses
java full version "1.1.3n:1997.06.26" Coincidence?
I don't know. The fullversion printed out when it
appears correctly is 1.2beta4-K, but might it be
possible that the classloader is accessing classes
from other builds under java_g but not under java?

The font.properties file looks correct - italic and
plain versions of these fonts are available. Could
it be accessing the wrong version of font.properties
somehow?

The application I am running is at:
/home/echawkes/public_html/4143361/FontPropertiesTest.java
I took it from pages 640-642 in "The Java Class
Libraries, 2nd Ed., Vol. 2".