This is introduced from 8.0 b94. When setting a specific font for rendering complex text and bidi mixed string, NPE is thrown. The result is the same if adding "-Dprism.text=native". Many fonts are impacted. Test program is attached, for example, select "Raanana" (Hebrew font), NPE is reported:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.javafx.font.FallbackResource.getSlotForFont(FallbackResource.java:155)
at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismCompositeFontResource.getSlotForFont(PrismCompositeFontResource.java:50)
at com.sun.javafx.font.coretext.CTGlyphLayout.addTextRun(CTGlyphLayout.java:104)
at com.sun.javafx.font.coretext.CTGlyphLayout.breakRuns(CTGlyphLayout.java:210)
at com.sun.javafx.text.PrismTextLayout.buildRuns(PrismTextLayout.java:676)
at com.sun.javafx.text.PrismTextLayout.layout(PrismTextLayout.java:922)
at com.sun.javafx.text.PrismTextLayout.ensureLayout(PrismTextLayout.java:177)
at com.sun.javafx.text.PrismTextLayout.getBounds(PrismTextLayout.java:200)
at javafx.scene.text.Text.getLogicalBounds(Text.java:388)
at javafx.scene.text.Text.impl_computeLayoutBounds(Text.java:1159)
at javafx.scene.Node$15.computeBounds(Node.java:3114)
at javafx.scene.Node$LazyBoundsProperty.get(Node.java:8749)
at javafx.scene.Node$LazyBoundsProperty.get(Node.java:8719)
at javafx.scene.Node.getLayoutBounds(Node.java:3129)
at javafx.scene.Node.prefHeight(Node.java:2671)
at javafx.scene.Node.minHeight(Node.java:2615)
at javafx.scene.layout.Region.computeChildPrefAreaHeight(Region.java:1520)
at javafx.scene.layout.VBox.getAreaHeights(VBox.java:441)
at javafx.scene.layout.VBox.layoutChildren(VBox.java:556)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1032)
at javafx.scene.Scene.layoutDirtyRoots(Scene.java:613)
at javafx.scene.Scene.doLayoutPass(Scene.java:584)
at javafx.scene.Scene.access$3700(Scene.java:190)
at javafx.scene.Scene$ScenePulseListener.pulse(Scene.java:2372)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.firePulse(Toolkit.java:360)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:589)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:569)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit$16.run(QuantumToolkit.java:436)
at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:95)
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