>>>>> Nathan Meyers writes:
Nathan> Paolo Ciccone wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:03PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
>> > No big surprise, they've commented out the relevant entries in the
>> > font.properties file. I'll do the same for the next Blackdown release
>> > as people think that it is a bug, but it isn't.
>> >
>> > Try to display dingbats characters (0x2701 - 0x27be) on an AWT
>> > component with the Inprise JDK, you'll get no warnings but the
>> > component only will show question marks: '????'. The warnings from
>> > the Blackdown JDK just tell you immediately that something might not
>> > work correctly.
>>
>> Does anybody know if installing the URW fonts fixes the problem
>> ? If yes, than it could be a requirement for the JDk and it
>> just could be mentioned in the README.
Nathan> Yes, if the font.properties file is changed accordingly
Nathan> and the fonts are made available in one of two possible
Nathan> ways:
Nathan> 1) Added to the X server's font path.
Nathan> 2) Added to the AWT's font path with the JAVA_FONTS environment
Nathan> variable.
Nathan> The advantage of the latter approach is that font
Nathan> rendering is performed by the AWT instead of X, and the
RC3 should do that in case 1 too.
Nathan> Graphics2D manipulations work. If you use JAVA_FONTS, you
Nathan> need to specify a path containing all directories from
Nathan> with the AWT gets scalable fonts, including the directory
Nathan> containing the default fonts shipped with the JDK.
Juergen
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