RFR: 8285308: Win: Japanese logical fonts are drawn with wrong size [v2]

[Phil Race]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:11:20 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The following diff seems to choose the right font:
> 
> ```
> --- a/src/java.desktop/windows/data/fontconfig/fontconfig.properties
> +++ b/src/java.desktop/windows/data/fontconfig/fontconfig.properties
> @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ sequence.dialog.x-MS950-HKSCS-XP=alphabetic,chinese-ms950,ch
> inese-hkscs,dingbats
>  sequence.dialoginput.x-MS950-HKSCS-XP=alphabetic,chinese-ms950,chinese-hkscs,di
> ngbats,symbol,chinese-ms950-extb
> 
>  sequence.allfonts.UTF-8.hi=alphabetic/1252,devanagari,dingbats,symbol
> -sequence.allfonts.UTF-8.ja=alphabetic,japanese,dingbats,symbol
> +sequence.allfonts.UTF-8.ja=japanese,alphabetic,dingbats,symbol
> 
>  sequence.allfonts.windows-1255=hebrew,alphabetic/1252,dingbats,symbol
> ```
> 
> This diff intends to choose the `japanese` set before the `alphabetic` set, in case for `ja` locale in `UTF-8` file encoding. I am not saying this is the right fix, but could be a starting point.

I've been looking at that exact line since I think it is what we'd use in the new default locale
and also thinking about the "allfonts" issue we've seen with Korean.
And which font is "japanese" in this case ?
Maybe we want to fill out the UTF8.<lang> based locales in this file now that is the default 

I suspect it is a lot safer to do what Toshio is doing but I just want to understand the mechanism.
I didn't have all the JA fonts installed on my system and I've been trying but they don't seem to have
appeared yet, so specifically I don't have MS Mincho, so there's not much I can test yet.
It migh

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8329