[Bug awt/30106] JDK-1.0-style logical font names

[roman at kennke dot org]

------- Comment #2 from roman at kennke dot org  2006-12-13 23:55 -------
I disagree. TimesRoman etc are not logical font names, but 'physical' font
names. (Logical names are Serif, SansSerif, Monospaced, Dialog, and DialogInput
-- refer to the API docs for java.awt.Font for more details). The fact that
these work with the JDK is not strict backwards-compatibility, but only caused
by Sun bundling these fonts with JREs. I don't think that we should map these
names internally, as it is not at all correct. If one requests TimesRoman, he
would expect the font 'TimesRoman' be loaded.

I guess that this would even work with GNU Classpath if you happen to have the
Microsoft TTF fonts installed and registered with fontconfig. There are
packages for many distros that pull in these (non-free) fonts.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30106