From: Xueming Shen (Xueming.Shen@sun.com)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 20:10:22 EDT
The latest "official" document about java font.properties can be found at
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/fontprop.html
regards,
sherman
Addison Phillips [wM] wrote:
>Hi Anne,
>
>This is a common problem, which has a solution on two different levels. The
>problem you have would be more succinctly phrased as "Java knows what the
>characters are, but doesn't have a picture of each character to show you.
>You need to supply the 'picture'."
>
>You have the right solution, which involves the font.properties file.
>
>First there is the problem of what you do when developing the product (so
>you can see that it is working correctly). If you are working on Windows and
>own a copy of MS-Office, the easiest thing to do is install the font "Arial
>Unicode MS" and modify your font.properties file appropriately (there are
>other such fonts in the world... I'm sure you can find them if you look, but
>this one is common to have). From that point on you'll be able to see the
>characters in your JTable.
>
>Secondly is what you do for your end users. You'll have to provide the end
>users with instructions about how to identify appropriate fonts and install
>them into their font.properties files.
>
>Here's how you modify your font.properties. For each logical font "block",
>you can add the additional font(s) like this:
>
>dialog.0=Arial,ANSI_CHARSET
>dialog.1=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET
>dialog.2=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET
>dialog.3=MS PMincho,SJIS_CHARSET # example of Japanese font
>dialog.4=Arial Unicode MS #Note the spaces!
>
>
>Then you need to add a reference to the font's disk name, like this:
>
># Font File Names
>#
>filename.Arial=ARIAL.TTF
>filename.Arial_Bold=ARIALBD.TTF
>filename.Arial_Italic=ARIALI.TTF
>filename.Arial_Bold_Italic=ARIALBI.TTF
>filename.Arial_Unicode_MS=ARIALUNI.TTF # Note the underscores here!
>filename.MS_PMincho=MSMINCHO.TTF
>
>For some fonts (but not Arial Unicode) you must modify the font converters
>and exclusion ranges:
>
># Component Font Character Encodings
>#
>fontcharset.dialog.0=sun.io.CharToByteCp1252
>fontcharset.dialog.1=sun.awt.windows.CharToByteWingDings
>fontcharset.dialog.2=sun.awt.CharToByteSymbol
>fontcharset.dialog.3=sun.io.CharToByteCp932 #Mincho is a Shift-JIS font and
>requires conversion. 932 is the Japanese code page.
>
># Exclusion Ranges
>#
>exclusion.dialog.0=0500-20ab,20ad-ffff
>exclusion.dialoginput.0=0500-20ab,20ad-ffff
>exclusion.serif.0=0500-20ab,20ad-ffff
>exclusion.sansserif.0=0500-20ab,20ad-ffff
>exclusion.monospaced.0=0500-20ab,20ad-ffff
>
>When you are done, save the file as "font.properties" in your jre/lib
>directory. Now your program should work the way you expect.
>
>A few more tips:
>
>1. Be sure your code uses logical fonts (that is,
>dialog/serif/sanserif/monospaced/etc., not
>Times/Arial/Helvetica/Verdana/etc.
>
>2. Be careful of bold and italic. Many Asian fonts do not contain a full set
>of glyphs for these styles. You'll have to substitute the plain fonts in
>order to see the characters, but they won't be bold or italic or
>what-have-you.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Addison
>
>
>Addison P. Phillips
>Director, Globalization Architecture
>webMethods | Delivering Global Business Visibility
>
>432 Lakeside Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
>+1 408.962.5487 (office) +1 408.210.3569 (mobile)
>mailto:aphillips@webmethods.com
>
>Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services Task Force
>http://www.w3.org/International/ws
>
>Internationalization is an architecture.
>It is not a feature.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
>>Behalf Of Magda Danish (Unicode)
>>Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:13 PM
>>To: unicode@unicode.org
>>Cc: anne.gleitsmann@lhsystems.com
>>Subject: FW: Web Form: Other Question: Java Tool
>>
>>
>>Anne,
>>
>>I am forwarding your email to the Unicode Public Email list
>>http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html.
>>I hope someone will be able to answer your question.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Magda Danish
>>Administrative Director
>>The Unicode Consortium
>>650-693-3921
>>
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Date/Time: Fri Sep 19 05:38:35 EDT 2003
>>>Contact: anne.gleitsmann@lhsystems.com
>>>Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback
>>>
>>>Dear Unicode-Team,
>>>
>>>my name is Anne Gleitsmann. My task is to implement a tool in
>>>java that administers different Ressource-Bundles. In my tool
>>>you can choose a master-document and one or more
>>>slave-documents, then follows the data-comparision. The
>>>document is being displayed in JTables.
>>>Now the language-variety has been expanded to include
>>>Japanese and Korean - and that is where my problem is: the
>>>font of these languages is shown as little squares.
>>>
>>>I found the information in the internet that I need to add
>>>the range of those characters to the font.properties file -
>>>but how do I do this? Could you help me or give me advise as
>>>to how to do this?
>>>
>>>Thank you!
>>>
>>>Greetings from Germany!
>>>
>>>Sincerely
>>>Anne Gleitsmann
>>>
>>>-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>>>(End of Report)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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