RFR: 8273358: macOS Monterey does not have the font Times needed by Serif
Alexey Ivanov
aivanov at openjdk.java.net
Thu Sep 9 20:18:07 UTC 2021
On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 16:49:26 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:
> Times has been the hard coded name for Serif in the JDK sources for macOS since the port was contributed by Apple.
> But it seems that macOS Monterey doesn't have this font.
> And the hard-coded fallback is also Times ! So we end up returning Dialog which is very bad.
>
> The safest fix here is to make Times New Roman the fall back, so that on older macOS versions there
> is absolutely no change. Only on Monterey and presumably later, will it use Times New Roman which,
> I suspect, is what Times actually ends up being anyway.
>
> Also to prevent unconditional warnings being printed I needed to change those to be conditional on logging being set.
Marked as reviewed by aivanov (Reviewer).
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5420
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