Just lost some hours trying to get this working on my Jaunty installation. I also found that modifying the fontconfig.properties file resolved the problem. I'm currently using fr_BE.UTF-8 as my locale.
The remaining problem does not come from some bug in the jdk, but only the UTF-8 fonts configuration. The fontconfig.properties file contains the following line: sequence.allfonts.UTF-8=latin-1,wqy-zenhei,japanese-vlgothic,japanese-kochi,japanese-sazanami,korean-un,korean-baekmuk,bengali,oriya,telugu If you remove the last three groups it solves the problem. It seems the openjdk code tries to get a maximum character size, and since the bengali,oriya,telugu characters takes more vertical space than latin-1 one, the global vertical space is increased. For info, Sun's jdk (as seen in the sun-java6-jdk package) does not include those fonts. I did not searched who is responsible of this fontconfig.properties file Ubuntu, Debian or upstream, but either there is a more compact font for those languages, or they should be removed from the list (as other languages like hindi, tamil, ...) -- openjdk label display in swing ui elements takes up too much vertical space https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255983 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
