Bolding Traditional Chinese characters causes characters to become illegible. Bolding Japanese and Simplified Chinese characters don't look right either but it is still legible.

Bug # 441107 described the problem, but that was closed as duplicate of 4346273. The problem still exists in JRE 1.3.1_01, 1.3.1_03, and somewhat in 1.4

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(DA Note: I have attached boldfont2.bmp, 1.3.0_01.bmp, 1.3.1.bmp files mentioned below, and can supply the others upon request).

Here is the screen shot using 1.3.0_01 (looks the same as with 1.3.1 b24)
(See attached file: boldfont2.bmp)

Here is a sample program (the program looks up the appropriate string and shows
the string plain and then bolded) with the attached results:
(See attached file: dialog.java)(See attached file: dialog.class)(See attached
file: dialog$1.class)(See attached file: Label_zh_TW.properties)(See attached
file: Label_de.properties)(See attached file: Label_es.properties)(See attached
file: Label_fr.properties)(See attached file: Label_it.properties)(See attached
file: Label_ja.properties)(See attached file: Label_pt.properties)(See attached
file: Label_zh.properties)(See attached file: Label_zh_HK.properties)(See
attached file: Label.properties)

If you detach all of these files into the same directory and run the following:
     java dialog DiscoveryParameters1

Here is a screen shot when running with JVM 1.3.0_01 (on a Simplified Chinese
system) (See attached file: 1.3.0_01.bmp)

Here is the screen shot when running with JVM 1.3.1 b24 (on a Simplified Chinese
system) (See attached file: 1.3.1.bmp)

These 2 screen shots both exhibit the problem and are attached.

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April 24, 2002 - From Lexmark:
I tested our small test app (the one I sent you in my last note) with
three different VMs:

1) 1.3.1-b24, the one we're currently using with our product
2) 1.3.1_03-b03, the latest version of 1.3 on your site
3) 1.4.0-b92, your latest VM

There did not appear to be any differences in the first two. I asked our
Chinese language person to look at it and she said that the bolded line, in each
of those two cases, was very hard to read.

However, with 1.4.0, it was clearly different. She said, while still not ideal,
it was much more readable than the other two.

Thus it appears that the problem has not been fixed on any version 1.3.1, but
has been addressed to some degree on 1.4.
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Bold Chinese characters still bad in 1.4.1. Sun has some work to do on the rendering engine to fix that. Available files and pictures furnished to Xueming Shen; test file requested from Lexmark as one of the benchmarks to evaluate the rendering result when Sun's development work is complete.
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