Bug#620385: josm: Cannot use fonts outside defoma

[Giovanni Mascellani]

Hi Teppitak.

On 21/04/2011 10:29, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
> I don't know how to select the VM for Sweethome3d in this case.
> sun-java6-fonts depends on sun-java6-jre (without openjdk alternative
> dependency). So, it's forcefully installed.

BTW, you can use the JAVA_CMD environment variable.

>> These data bring me to think that the main problem is the Virtual
>> Machine, that is not able to use fonts without having defoma hints. I'll
>> ask on the debian-java@ mailing list.
> 
> It sounds so.

I asked on debian-java about this problem and did some more testing. It
actually turned out that the problem doesn't arise from defoma hints,
rather from the presence of the Lucida font.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2011/04/msg00052.html

Given that I can reproduce the same behavior described in my last email
to that thread with the simple attached program, I consider this to be a
bug in OpenJDK. I'll forward this bug to the proper maintainer.

Giovanni.
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