Re: RFR: 8263140: Japanese chars garble in console window in HSDB [v2]

[Chris Plummer]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:00:26 GMT, Phil Race <p...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> There are two additional locations that use `lookupFont("Courier")`. Any 
>> reason not to replace them also? If you do replace them, then I think you 
>> can get rid of `lookupFont`.
>
>> There are two additional locations that use `lookupFont("Courier")`. Any 
>> reason not to replace them also? If you do replace them, then I think you 
>> can get rid of `lookupFont`.
> 
> I think you really, really should get rid that ! Courier is a Postscript font 
> that you will be hard pressed to find on modern systems. On Windows we might 
> still have the "special case" code that remaps it to Courier New. Linux 
> probably doesn't have it because it is a proprietary name which is why JDK 
> used it only in 1.0 and stopped in 1.1 some 25 (!) years ago. And using a 
> logical font you will get much better code point support
> 
> And if we don't have special logic then Courier will map to "Dialog" which is 
> quite a different beast - and so probably not at all  what the coder wanted.

BTW, on linux this does slightly adjust the appearance of text in the console. 
Not saying it's better or worse, just different.

Before:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/53915825/110376897-9acaae80-8008-11eb-9788-3603b60798eb.png)

After:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/53915825/110377000-b8981380-8008-11eb-9e3b-700506b11a18.png)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2862