[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] RFR: 8221305: java/awt/FontMetrics/MaxAdvanceIsMax.java fails on MacOS + Solaris

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 4/29/20 3:58 pm, Philip Race wrote:
> the advance of 'm' is a commonly used proxy for the design width of a latin font.
> But I agree it is also not really a great estimate once you consider any international text.
> 
> Anyway I am not sure where you are headed with that and the
> discussion of charWidth() or charWidths().
> 
> I am not trying to "fix the world" here, I am just removing a test
> that it is pointless to maintain.

Then probably we can report a bug, to state that we have some issues here?
 From my point of view, the test is mostly fine, it does not check some
real corner cases and compound glyphs but only the simple chars, which should
work. If it does not work means all code where we try to predict the size of
the text components is broken, and it looks like there is no way to fix that.


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Best regards, Sergey.