Name: vi73552 Date: 04/11/99


Problem

When running the following code:

import javax.swing.*;

class russian3 {
  
  static void main(String[] args) {
   JFrame frame = new JFrame("russian");
   frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new BoxLayout(frame.getContentPane(),
   BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
String s = "\u0401\u0402\u0403\u0404\u0405\u0406\u0407\u0408\u0409\u040A\u040B\u040C\u040D\u040E\u040F";
   JLabel label = new JLabel("Label:" + s);
   frame.getContentPane().add(label);
   JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();
textArea.append("Text Area:" + s);
   frame.getContentPane().add(textArea);
   frame.pack();
   frame.show();
  }
}

The label displays the cyrillic characters OK but the
textarea displays them as squares. The problem was traced to
the different default fonts used for the text area and label.
Investigating it further the font.properties file explicitly
excludes cyrillic characters for some fonts (but not all) even
when the glyphs are present in the font. Commenting the
exclusion lines in font.properties fixed the problem. We need
to be able to simultaneously display glyphs from a number of
scripts so using a russian locale is not a solution as it
excludes some other unicode characters.

Version

bash-2.02$ java -version
java version "1.2"
Classic VM (build JDK-1.2-V, native threads)
bash-2.02$ java -fullversion
java full version "JDK-1.2-V"

Configuration Info

This in on a Windows NT machine with russian and english
input locales installed via
CONTROL PANEL/Regional Settings/Input Locales
so that fonts have both latin1 and cyrillic characters
(Review ID: 56630)
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Name: krT82822 Date: 10/11/99


I've tried the latest SDK (1.3beta), but closed bug #4192443 still
exists. I've tried some workarounds that was suggested on
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4192443.html,
but without success. I can't make any progress in developing because
my project is about to complete but I can't release it w/o normal
localization in Win95 OSR2 (Russian release)...
May be I missed something?
(Review ID: 96342)
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