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openjdk-6 package

wrong metric for Chinese font in OpenJDK applications

  1. Maverick (10.10)
  2. Bug #472845
Bug #472845 reported by Qianqian Fang
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Bug Description

OpenJDK does not display Chinese (or CJK) characters correctly. It appears that all Han glyphs were displayed using wrong metric, and is only half to 1/3 of the actual EM width.

A screenshot is attached to illustrate the problem. To reproduce, select "OpenJDK Java 6 policy Tool" from the setting sub-menu, then select menu File\Open and navigate into a folder with Chinese name.

Notice that the Chinese folder name "中文目录" in the top file name box is only half-width, but the Chinese subfolder names in the left panel are fine.

This was also reported previously in Ubuntu Chinese forum (in Chinese), see http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=221482

Creating a link in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/fonts/fallback folder does not solve the problem. Also, OpenJDK does not follow the fontconfig settings.

Update: as pointed out by Man Yuan in Comment#4, the font paths for wqy-zenhei in fontconfig.propertie sneeds to be updated as well. The font file suffix has been changed to ttc after the upgrade to 0.8.34 last year.

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Qianqian Fang (fangq) wrote :
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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote : Re: [Openjdk] [Bug 472845] [NEW] wrong metric for Chinese font in OpenJDK applications

On 03.11.2009 16:30, Qianqian Fang wrote:
> Creating a link in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/fonts/fallback
> folder does not solve the problem. Also, OpenJDK does not follow the
> fontconfig settings.

openjdk has it's own idea about fontconfig, and a separate config file in

   /etc/java-6-openjdk/fontconfig.properties

Aron Xu (happyaron)
tags: added: fonts
removed: chinese cjk
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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

please could you recheck this with openjdk-6 in current lucid?

Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Man Yuan (epsilonyuan) wrote :

in Lucid it happens too!! But can be hacked!

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, i386 and amd64, openjdk-6-jre 6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1

the hack method is :
env _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on' java something

And there is an obvious bug about the fontconfig.properties file
that is, ttc and ttf file confusions:
after installing the zh_cn language support, we only get
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic/uming.ttf #a very basic and default Chinese font
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-zenhei.ttc #a more beautiful and popular Chinese sans-serif font

but in fontconfig.properties there are some sentences with paths below:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic/uming.ttc
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-zenhei.ttf

and beware, the ttf-wqy-zenhei package is a suggested package when installing openjdk-6-jre but I can only find wqy-zenhei.ttc in the directory even I installed it.Same problem is found in the ttf-wqy-microhei package,too. I can't find the wqy-microhei.ttf but only wqy-microhei.ttc!!!
And maybe that's a bug for ttf-wqy-zenhei and ttf-wqy-microhei ?

But, even the ttf ttc mismatch is corrected in fontproperties, the problem of wrong metric for Chinese font in OpenJDK applications still happens.

Qianqian Fang (fangq)
description: updated
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Qianqian Fang (fangq) wrote :

I am pretty sure this is related, someone had reported a test in Ubuntu Chinese forum, OpenJDK behaves differently when hard-coding different Chinese fonts in the fontconfig.properties file. The full report (in Chinese) can be seen here:
http://forum.ubuntu.com.cn/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=270097&sid=c14bc70002ab07beb8786498467c8f5a

the test screenshot is shown from this link:
http://forum.ubuntu.com.cn/download/file.php?id=102213&sid=c14bc70002ab07beb8786498467c8f5a&mode=view/test.png

The broken one at the bottom is "WenQuanYi Zen Hei". The one next to it is "WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono". I suspect that the wrong metrics is related to the embedded bitmaps.

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Man Yuan (epsilonyuan) wrote :

Oh~ the test.png above is reported by me…

I should confirm that even for the normal-like fonts in the test.png, the font displaying is a bit strange. There still some colorful pixels around the characters.

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Tao Wang (dancefire) wrote :

The problem is still in 10.04 Lucid, and it can be fixed by using font 'WenQuanYi Micro Hei' instead of others.

I created a patch, which adds font 'WenQuanYi Micro Hei' and rearrange the search sequence in 'fontconfig.properties'.

The patch also fix the problem of wrong extension for 'uming' and 'wqy-zenhei', which should be '.ttc', not '.ttf'

One thing need to be noticed by package maintainer of 'openjdk-6-jre-headless', this patch requires the dependency on package 'ttf-wqy-microhei', the level should be same as 'ttf-wqy-zenhei', which is 'sug'.

Tao Wang (dancefire)
Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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muzuiget (muzuiget) wrote :

The patch in #7 work fine for me. The java program's Chinese font problem has annoying Chinese users for a long time. And package "ttf-wqy-microhei" already installed in 10.04 by default. So please fix this, it is simple.

Matthias Klose (doko)
Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Please test proposed package

Accepted openjdk-6 into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package openjdk-6 - 6b20~pre1-1ubuntu1

---------------
openjdk-6 (6b20~pre1-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Include docs in the -doc package. LP: #600834.
  * Update from the IcedTea6 trunk.
    - Plugin and netx fixes.
    - Don't link the plugin against the libxul libraries. Closes: #576361.
    - More plugin cpu usage fixes. Closes: #584335, #587049.
    - Plugin: fixes AppletContext.getApplets().
  * Fix Vcs-Bzr location. Closes: #530883.
  * Search for unversioned llvm-config tool.
  * Don't set XFILESEARCHPATH and NLSPATH on startup. LP: #586641.
  * Fix chinese font metrics and prefer using 'WenQuanYi Micro Hei' font.
    LP: #472845.
  * Strip libjvm.so with --strip-debug instead of --strip-unneeded.
    LP: #574997.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:40:10 +0200

Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package openjdk-6 - 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3~9.04.2

---------------
openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3~9.04.2) jaunty-security; urgency=low

  * Upload to Jaunty

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
  * Rebuild with fixed ant.
  * Disable building the shark based VM on armel.
  * Always build the ARM assembler interpreter in arm mode.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Plugin and netx fixes.
    - Don't link the plugin against the libxul libraries. Closes: #576361.
    - More plugin cpu usage fixes. Closes: #584335, #587049.
    - Plugin: fixes AppletContext.getApplets().
    - Fix race conditions in plugin initialization code that were causing
      hangs when loading multiple applets in parallel.
  * Fix Vcs-Bzr location. Closes: #530883.
  * Search for unversioned llvm-config tool.
  * Don't set XFILESEARCHPATH and NLSPATH on startup. LP: #586641.
  * Fix chinese font metrics and prefer using 'WenQuanYi Micro Hei' font.
    LP: #472845.
  * Strip libjvm.so with --strip-debug instead of --strip-unneeded.
    LP: #574997.
  * Don't turn on the ARM assembler interpreter when building the shark
    VM.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Plugin fixes. LP: #597714.
  * Add powerpcspe build fixes (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior). Closes: #586359.
  * Work around build failure on buildds configured with low ARG_MAX
    (Giovanni Mascellani). Closes: #575254.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-2ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  * Search for unversioned llvm-config tool.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-2ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Upload to maverick.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Fix build on Hitachi SH. Closes: #575346.
    - Shark and Zero fixes.
  * Build shark using llvm-2.7.
  * Don't use shark to run the test harness when testing the shark build.
  * README.Debian: Add paragraph about debugging the IcedTea NPPlugin.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload to unstable.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Update IcedTea6 to the icedtea6-1.8 release.
  * Fix builds on Ubuntu/dapper and Debian/lenny.
  * On hppa, configure --without-rhino --disable-plugin.
  * Fix Hitachi SH configury. Closes: #575346.
  * Start a window manager when running the tests. Prefer metacity,
    as more tests pass with it.
  * Let XToolkit.isTraySupported() return true, if Compiz is running.
    Works around sun#6438179. LP: #300948.
  * Make <java_home>/jre/lib/security/nss.cfg a config file.
  * Fail in the configuration of the packages, if /proc is not mounted.
    java currently uses tricks to find its own shared libraries depending
    on the path of the binary. Will be changed in OpenJDK7. Closes: #576453.
  * Fix PR icedtea/469, testsuite failures with the NSS based security
    provider. LP: #556549.
  * Do not pass LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the plugin to the java process.
    While libnss3.so gets loaded from /usr/lib, the dependent libraries
    are loaded from MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME (See #561216 for the wrong firefox
    config). LP: ...

Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu Jaunty):
status: New → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package openjdk-6 - 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3~9.10.2

---------------
openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3~9.10.2) karmic-security; urgency=low

  * Upload to Karmic

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
  * Rebuild with fixed ant.
  * Disable building the shark based VM on armel.
  * Always build the ARM assembler interpreter in arm mode.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Plugin and netx fixes.
    - Don't link the plugin against the libxul libraries. Closes: #576361.
    - More plugin cpu usage fixes. Closes: #584335, #587049.
    - Plugin: fixes AppletContext.getApplets().
    - Fix race conditions in plugin initialization code that were causing
      hangs when loading multiple applets in parallel.
  * Fix Vcs-Bzr location. Closes: #530883.
  * Search for unversioned llvm-config tool.
  * Don't set XFILESEARCHPATH and NLSPATH on startup. LP: #586641.
  * Fix chinese font metrics and prefer using 'WenQuanYi Micro Hei' font.
    LP: #472845.
  * Strip libjvm.so with --strip-debug instead of --strip-unneeded.
    LP: #574997.
  * Don't turn on the ARM assembler interpreter when building the shark
    VM.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Plugin fixes. LP: #597714.
  * Add powerpcspe build fixes (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior). Closes: #586359.
  * Work around build failure on buildds configured with low ARG_MAX
    (Giovanni Mascellani). Closes: #575254.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-2ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  * Search for unversioned llvm-config tool.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-2ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Upload to maverick.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Fix build on Hitachi SH. Closes: #575346.
    - Shark and Zero fixes.
  * Build shark using llvm-2.7.
  * Don't use shark to run the test harness when testing the shark build.
  * README.Debian: Add paragraph about debugging the IcedTea NPPlugin.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload to unstable.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Update IcedTea6 to the icedtea6-1.8 release.
  * Fix builds on Ubuntu/dapper and Debian/lenny.
  * On hppa, configure --without-rhino --disable-plugin.
  * Fix Hitachi SH configury. Closes: #575346.
  * Start a window manager when running the tests. Prefer metacity,
    as more tests pass with it.
  * Let XToolkit.isTraySupported() return true, if Compiz is running.
    Works around sun#6438179. LP: #300948.
  * Make <java_home>/jre/lib/security/nss.cfg a config file.
  * Fail in the configuration of the packages, if /proc is not mounted.
    java currently uses tricks to find its own shared libraries depending
    on the path of the binary. Will be changed in OpenJDK7. Closes: #576453.
  * Fix PR icedtea/469, testsuite failures with the NSS based security
    provider. LP: #556549.
  * Do not pass LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the plugin to the java process.
    While libnss3.so gets loaded from /usr/lib, the dependent libraries
    are loaded from MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME (See #561216 for the wrong firefox
    config). LP: ...

Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package openjdk-6 - 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3

---------------
openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
  * Rebuild with fixed ant.
  * Disable building the shark based VM on armel.
  * Always build the ARM assembler interpreter in arm mode.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Plugin and netx fixes.
    - Don't link the plugin against the libxul libraries. Closes: #576361.
    - More plugin cpu usage fixes. Closes: #584335, #587049.
    - Plugin: fixes AppletContext.getApplets().
    - Fix race conditions in plugin initialization code that were causing
      hangs when loading multiple applets in parallel.
  * Fix Vcs-Bzr location. Closes: #530883.
  * Search for unversioned llvm-config tool.
  * Don't set XFILESEARCHPATH and NLSPATH on startup. LP: #586641.
  * Fix chinese font metrics and prefer using 'WenQuanYi Micro Hei' font.
    LP: #472845.
  * Strip libjvm.so with --strip-debug instead of --strip-unneeded.
    LP: #574997.
  * Don't turn on the ARM assembler interpreter when building the shark
    VM.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Plugin fixes. LP: #597714.
  * Add powerpcspe build fixes (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior). Closes: #586359.
  * Work around build failure on buildds configured with low ARG_MAX
    (Giovanni Mascellani). Closes: #575254.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:46:47 +0200

Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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