[Bug 525870] The Java plugin does not report available fonts accurately

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525870

--- Comment #6 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> 2010-11-16 13:52:23 EST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Support for opentype fonts has been added in OpenJDK6. See commits:
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/b577c70564b8
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/acb763ebef95
> 
> These should be part of the next OpenJDK6 source drop. IcedTea6 1.10 should
> include these fixes.

Thanks!

> Note that even with this patch, the fonts listed are not identical. OpenJDK
> does not support X11 bitmap fonts.

That's a feature

> There is also a slight naming difference -
> OpenJDK names the fonts using just the English parts of the font name shown by
> fc-list.

This part won't work. Not all fonts have English names (it can be trivially be
checked by running repo-font-audit from fontpackages-tools on a Fedora, RHEL or
Centos repository, this is one of its checks)

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