On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 01:14:39 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Some useful documentation was added to the JPasswordField. > _Mailing list message from [Alan Snyder](mailto:javali...@cbfiddle.com) on > [swing-dev](mailto:swing-...@mail.openjdk.java.net):_ > > I think this statement is over-constraining the UI behavior. > > What the password field displays does not have to be text in the ordinary > sense of the word. It could be a series of large dots. It is really up to the > UI. > It is a text field. It displays unicode text. Nothing else. It can't display a graphic such as a dot unless it is a unicode assigned code point. So if we want to re-define text across the platform to exclude some subset of unicode it will be a questionable and difficult job and this informational comment isn't the place to start. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4296
