[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] <AWT Dev> Review request for 8034218: AIX: Provide a better fontconfig.properties file

[Phil Race]

All,

If you want to continue this discussion i should be restarted on 2d-dev
and awt-dev removed. AWT has nothing to do with the fonts ..
I've fixed the bug sub-cat.

-phil.

On 05/12/2014 09:06 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> thanks for submitting this patch.
>
> Overall it looks good, but I don't think we should reference the fonts
> under $JRE_LIB_FONTS/ in the OpenJDK version of fontconfig.properties
> (at least not until IBM will not also contribute the corresponding
> fonts :)
>
> I would also find it helpful to keep a reworked version of the comment:
>
>    27 # Minimal version for AIX using the standard Latin Type1 Fonts from the
>    28 # package X11.fnt.iso_T1. These fonts are installed by default into
>    29 # "/usr/lpp/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" and sym-linked to
> "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>
> which mentions which AIX packages provide the other referenced font files.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Lu <luchsh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Hi awt-dev,
>>
>> Please review the fix for issue:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8034218
>>
>> The changes are placed at
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~luchsh/JDK-8034218/
>>
>> This patch is trying to provide a better fonctconfig.properties file for AIX
>> platform,
>> which contains support for more languages, like CJK.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jonathan
>>
>>