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

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 5/3/20 5:52 pm, Philip Race wrote:
> "Check" or "ensure" ?
> To check you compare.
> To ensure you would have to do as you said in a previous reply by forcing max advance to
> as great as those arbitrary characters and I already gave my reasons why I think that is not appropriate.
> It is very hard to defend why certain code points are special and you would adjust the spec. again(!) to
> say that. And it would be to no advantage and perhaps break applications that did not expect it to change.

+1
Ok, looks like we(still) will use the chatW("w") in Swing then =(


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Best regards, Sergey.