OpenJDK6 and NetBeans: Who can use non-English fonts on NetBeans?

Daichi GOTO daichi at ongs.co.jp
Wed Feb 25 01:13:42 PST 2009


Ooops so sorry, subject was mistaken.
s/OpenJDK7/OpenJDK6/

葉佳威 Jiawei Ye wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Daichi GOTO <daichi at ongs.co.jp 
> <mailto:daichi at ongs.co.jp>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Java guys,
> 
>     Who can use non-English fonts on NetBeans with OpenJDK6?
>     I have tried some methods to use Japanese fonts with that,
>     but I have all faild :-(
> 
>     If you have any ideas, please teach me. Thanks
> 
>     -- 
> 
> 
>      Daichi GOTO, http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi
>     <http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi>
> 
> 
> One evil trick is to go to your ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/fonts and put a 
> "fallback" directory link to your actual font dir.
> 
> ex. on my system
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      34  8 29 11:56 fallback -> 
> /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/
> 
> This gives me much better Chinese fonts (I put my Mac fonts in there).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jiawei
> 
> -- 
> "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, 
> then to the end user it's a duck, and end users have made it pretty 
> clear they want a duck; whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee 
> is irrelevant."


-- 
   Daichi GOTO, http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi



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