Tested with Merlin b52 and b53 on Solaris sparc 2.6/7/8 and x86 7/8.

The Dingbats unicode(\u2700 - \u279f) are not rotated in correct direction with drawString() and TextLayout.getOutline().

Please compare attached "test-14.gif with test-131.gif" which are screen shot on Solaris with jdk1.4(test-14.gif) and jdk1.3.1(test-131.gif) for this problem.
You can see that rotated text does not render in correct direction on test-14.gif.
Another unicode are rotated in correct direction on Solaris with Merlin.

This problem is not seen on Windows japanese.

To reproduce:
1. Extract attched test case program.
   % tar xvf rotate.tar
2. compile and execute test case program.
   % javac *.java
   % java FontEffectTest2
3. Please input Dingbats code into Hex Unicode text area.
   for example,
       input "2700" into Hex Uncode.
   
   Result: Dingbats unicode are not renderd in correct direction.

This problem does not occur with ladybird.

[rieko.suzuki@Japan 2001-02-23]

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Unicode \u301c in "CJK symbols and punctuation" also seen the same behavior.

shinkichi.yamazaki@japan 2001-03-12

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