Name: rmT116609 Date: 04/01/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
It would be really nice to have the font.properties file list a default unicode font at the end of all fonts that is a complete unicode font file, such as "Arial Unicode MS", and remove the exclusion ranges, so that you can display greek, cyrillic, CJK text text etc even if you aren't running against font.properties.ja etc.
Such a font is readily available on Windows, and might even be installed by default, and makes the I18N support for java much better.

JUSTIFICATION :
Allows people who primarily use English or another language to still display any other language they choose.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Always displays characters in SOME font, even if it isn't the language optimized versions.
ACTUAL -
Displays square boxes for most I18N chracters.

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Manually modify the font.properties file, for example:
# @(#)font.properties 1.13 02/03/07
#
# Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
#

# Component Font Mappings
#
dialog.0=Arial Unicode MS,ANSI_CHARSET
dialog.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialog.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialog.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
dialog.4=\uad74\ub9bc,HANGEUL_CHARSET

dialog.bold.0=Arial Bold,ANSI_CHARSET
dialog.bold.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialog.bold.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialog.bold.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
dialog.bold.4=\uad74\ub9bc,HANGEUL_CHARSET

dialog.italic.0=Arial Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
dialog.italic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialog.italic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialog.italic.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
dialog.italic.4=\uad74\ub9bc,HANGEUL_CHARSET

dialog.bolditalic.0=Arial Bold Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
dialog.bolditalic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialog.bolditalic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialog.bolditalic.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
dialog.bolditalic.4=\uad74\ub9bc,HANGEUL_CHARSET



dialoginput.0=Courier New,ANSI_CHARSET
dialoginput.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialoginput.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

dialoginput.bold.0=Courier New Bold,ANSI_CHARSET
dialoginput.bold.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialoginput.bold.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

dialoginput.italic.0=Courier New Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
dialoginput.italic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialoginput.italic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

dialoginput.bolditalic.0=Courier New Bold Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
dialoginput.bolditalic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
dialoginput.bolditalic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

serif.0=Times New Roman,ANSI_CHARSET
serif.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
serif.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
serif.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET


serif.bold.0=Times New Roman Bold,ANSI_CHARSET
serif.bold.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
serif.bold.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

serif.italic.0=Times New Roman Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
serif.italic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
serif.italic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

serif.bolditalic.0=Times New Roman Bold Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
serif.bolditalic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
serif.bolditalic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

sansserif.0=Arial Unicode MS,ANSI_CHARSET
sansserif.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
sansserif.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
sansserif.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
sansserif.4=\uad74\ub9bc,HANGEUL_CHARSET

sansserif.bold.0=Arial Bold,ANSI_CHARSET
sansserif.bold.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
sansserif.bold.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
sansserif.bold.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
sansserif.bold.4=\uad74\ub9bc,HANGEUL_CHARSET

sansserif.italic.0=Arial Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
sansserif.italic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
sansserif.italic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
sansserif.italic.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
sansserif.italic.4=\uad74\ub9bc,HANGEUL_CHARSET

sansserif.bolditalic.0=Arial Bold Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
sansserif.bolditalic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
sansserif.bolditalic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
sansserif.bolditalic.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
sansserif.bolditalic.4=\uad74\ub9bc,HANGEUL_CHARSET


monospaced.0=Courier New,ANSI_CHARSET
monospaced.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
monospaced.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
monospaced.3=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET

monospaced.bold.0=Courier New Bold,ANSI_CHARSET
monospaced.bold.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
monospaced.bold.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

monospaced.italic.0=Courier New Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
monospaced.italic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
monospaced.italic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

monospaced.bolditalic.0=Courier New Bold Italic,ANSI_CHARSET
monospaced.bolditalic.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
monospaced.bolditalic.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET

# Font File Names
#
filename.\uad74\ub9bc=gulim.TTC
filename.\ubc14\ud0d5=batang.TTC
filename.\uad74\ub9bc\uccb4=gulim.TTC

filename.Arial=ARIAL.TTF
filename.Arial_Bold=ARIALBD.TTF
filename.Arial_Italic=ARIALI.TTF
filename.Arial_Bold_Italic=ARIALBI.TTF

filename.Courier_New=COUR.TTF
filename.Courier_New_Bold=COURBD.TTF
filename.Courier_New_Italic=COURI.TTF
filename.Courier_New_Bold_Italic=COURBI.TTF

filename.Times_New_Roman=TIMES.TTF
filename.Times_New_Roman_Bold=TIMESBD.TTF
filename.Times_New_Roman_Italic=TIMESI.TTF
filename.Times_New_Roman_Bold_Italic=TIMESBI.TTF

filename.WingDings=WINGDING.TTF
filename.Symbol=SYMBOL.TTF

filename.\uff2d\uff33_\u660e\u671d=MSMINCHO.TTC
filename.\uff2d\uff33_\u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af=MSGOTHIC.TTC

# Missing Glyph Character
#
default.char=2751

# Component Font Character Encodings
#
fontcharset.dialog.0=sun.io.CharToByteCp1252
fontcharset.dialog.1=sun.awt.windows.CharToByteWingDings
fontcharset.dialog.2=sun.awt.CharToByteSymbol

fontcharset.dialoginput.0=sun.io.CharToByteCp1252
fontcharset.dialoginput.1=sun.awt.windows.CharToByteWingDings
fontcharset.dialoginput.2=sun.awt.CharToByteSymbol

fontcharset.serif.0=sun.io.CharToByteCp1252
fontcharset.serif.1=sun.awt.windows.CharToByteWingDings
fontcharset.serif.2=sun.awt.CharToByteSymbol

fontcharset.sansserif.0=sun.io.CharToByteCp1252
fontcharset.sansserif.1=sun.awt.windows.CharToByteWingDings
fontcharset.sansserif.2=sun.awt.CharToByteSymbol

fontcharset.monospaced.0=sun.io.CharToByteCp1252
fontcharset.monospaced.1=sun.awt.windows.CharToByteWingDings
fontcharset.monospaced.2=sun.awt.CharToByteSymbol

# Text Input Character Set
#
inputtextcharset=ANSI_CHARSET
(Incident Review ID: 242175)
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