RFE: API to indicate preference for locale-specific fonts

Name: nl37777 Date: 03/14/2003


The current set of logical fonts are designed to keep the same aspect in
all languages, which means all Alphabetical characters are displayed in
the same set of fonts in all languages. This is not a good design for
all applications.

For example, in the current font.properties.ja file, Alphabetical
characters and Japanese Kanji characters are displayed in different
fonts, while Japanese language prefer to display all characters in
Japanese fonts.

We need an API that lets applications indicate their preference for
locale-specific or Latin fonts as the primary component of logical
fonts. This should be a simple method that's called once at application
startup and then impacts all fonts created for the application or applet
context.
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