SYNOPSIS
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Monospaced font mapped to proportional font (David) for Hebrew

OPERATING SYSTEM
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Windows

FULL JDK VERSION
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All Java 6

DESCRIPTION from LICENSEE
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Characters of Hebrew for all fonts are mapped to the "David" font into fontconfig.properties file. This is even the case for the monospaced font (which is mapped to "Courier New" for English). This causes several functionality problems because "David" font is proportional, not monospaced.
 
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
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1. Change system locale to Hebrew
2. Run the provided testcase: java HebrewTest
3. Type characters into the TextField - note that they are not
   monospaced.

TESTCASE SOURCE
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import java.util.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class HebrewTest extends JFrame {
    public HebrewTest() {
        super("Hebrew Monospace Font Test");
        JTextField JTextField1 = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        JTextField1.setFont(new Font("MonoSpaced", Font.PLAIN, 12));
        getContentPane().add(JTextField1);
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        HebrewTest test = new HebrewTest();
        test.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        test.setSize(450, 150);
        test.setVisible(true);
    }
}

WORKAROUND
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Fix the fontconfig.properties file manually as below:

  monospaced.plain.alphabetic=Courier New
  monospaced.plain.chinese-ms950-extb=MingLiU-ExtB
  monospaced.plain.hebrew=Courier New
  monospaced.plain.japanese=MS Gothic
  monospaced.plain.korean=GulimChe

  monospaced.bold.alphabetic=Courier New Bold
  monospaced.bold.chinese-ms950=PMingLiU
  monospaced.bold.chinese-ms950-extb=PMingLiU-ExtB
  monospaced.bold.hebrew=Courier New Bold
  monospaced.bold.japanese=MS Gothic


JUSTIFICATION
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We believe this represents a serious problem when hundreds of workstations need to be updated and request that the issue be fixed in the JDK.