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.
>
Exactly, it just means that a font package isn't installed on the host
system. I seem to remember seeing something some time back about the
specific font package to install, but I don't remember what it was...
> 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.
>
This is, in my opinion, the correct way to handle it - let the user know
right away that something may not work right instead of making them
guess.
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