Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de> さんは書きました:

If anybody here knows the details of Java font configuration, please have a look at the

http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/m17n/font.properties.ja

file and tell me how it is possible that it works just fine on some machines whereas it doesn't work at all on others.

Thanks to help from Shinkichi Yamazaki <syamazaki@novell.com> who pointed me to the http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/fontprop.html page, I found the bug in the above font.properties.ja file. This file contains lines like filename.-misc-sazanami_mincho-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/sazanami-mincho.ttf Here it is important that the character between "sazanami" and "mincho" ia an underscore and not a space as in the XLFD or in the other entries in font.properties.ja like: serif.3=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 Without the underscore these lines are ignored. And if these lines are ignored, Java has problems to find out which font file belongs to which XLFD. If the directory where the fonts are is configured with appendedfontpath=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype (or a symlink exists), Java might find the correct fonts even without working filename.PlatformFontName entries, but apparently this depends on how many and what type of fonts are installed, therefore it can work on some machines and fail on others. It is not reliable possible to infer the font file name only from the XLFD, therefore this hint is needed to make sure Java finds the correct font file. The first version of font.properties.ja I uploaded still had the space/underscore bug, if you download it again now you get the fixed version which works reliably on all my machines. -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。