Tesed with jdk1.4-beta b50 on WindowsNT and Solaris 8 and 7 Sparc.


Italic style characters are slanted too much with b50.

On Solaris:
This problem is seen in Japanese characters such as Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji.

To reproduce,
1. Launch Font2DTest Demo ($JAVAHOME/demo/jfc/Font2DTest/Font2DTest.jar).
2. Select one of the font among Dialog, DialogInput, SansSerif, Serif and MonoSpaced from Font menu.
3. Select CJK Unified Ideographs or Hiragana or Katakana.
4. Select Italic from Style menu.


On Windows:

This problem as on Solaris is seen in Japanese characters.
In addition, ascii characters with MonoSpaced has the same problem.

To reproduce,
For Japanese Characters:
Please follow the same step above.

For ascii characters:
1. Launch Font2DTest Demo ($JAVAHOME/demo/jfc/Font2DTest/Font2DTest.jar).
2. Select MonoSpaced from Font menu.
3. Select Basic Latin.
4. Select Italic from Style menu.



This problem is not seen in b49 or before, however, Italic characters seems not to be slanted enough with b49 or before.

Comparing Italic characters in native applcication on Windows (for example, WordPad) with b49's Italic characters, WordPad's are slanted more than b49's.
On the other hand, comparing WordPad's with b50's Italic characters,
b50's are much more slanted.
It seems that WordPad's Italic characters are slanted well.


Regarding Japanese characters' problem :
If doubule quotation mark (\u301E) follows characters with voiced sound mark or semi voiced sound mark such as \u304c, \u304e, \u3050, \u3052 \u3054, \u3071 \u3074 \u3077 and \u307d, when Italic style is applied to the characters,
the charactesrs are displayed over the double quoation mark, therefore the characters can not be displayed properly.

To reproduce,
Follow the same step 1 and 2 above.
3. Select UserText from "Text to Use" menu.
4. Input Japanese characters whith have voiced sound mark or semi voiced sound mar as above in popuped Text Area and click "update" button.

You can see the phenomenon.