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Created attachment 163862 [details] Tiny sample program reproducing the bug Environment: Windows 7, using the Windows Look and Feel. Scenario: * Use the Windows Look and Feel in your Java application (with Metal: no problem). * Create a ETable with a column header having characters in Chinese or Japanese (or any not supported by Tahoma font). * When running the program, click or this header to sort the column => these characters will be replaced by a square. (small Maven project attached, with 1 class and one main method) Root cause: The headers of the sorted columns will be rendered in bold by the ETable, which is done in "ETableHeader::getTableCellRendererComponent". This code takes the font of the JLabel used for the rendering, and creates a similar font in bold. For that, it does not uses "Font::deriveFont(...)" (because of a 2005 bug with Apple's JVM), but uses "(new Font (label.getFont().getName(), ...)". Under Windows it is a problem: * the default font (used here by the JLabel) is a composite font * from what I understand, a composite font is a list of physical fonts, which will be successively used to try to render a given character. * this list of the physical fonts contains one that supports Chinese characters. * label.getFont().getName() retrieves the name of the first font of the composite font, in the case of the Windows Look and Feel it is "Tahoma" (which does not support Chinese). * so the "new Font(...)" used as a header renderer will be only "Tahoma", hence the square characters. Does this analysis makes sense for you? My suggestion would be to revert the patch from 2005. I don't have a Mac to my disposition to test that its works though. Old code: // don't use deriveFont() - see #49973 for details label.setFont (new Font (label.getFont ().getName (), Font.BOLD, label.getFont ().getSize ())); New code: label.setFont(label.getFont().deriveFont(Font.BOLD));
Created attachment 163865 [details] Patch proposal Added a patch proposal (revert the fix from 2005)
According to a colleague, there is no Apple JVM any more, so the risk of regression for Mac should be low.
Thanks for the investigations. I agree that Apple JVM should not be an issue any more. Thanks for the patch, according to issue #49973, this was changed at more places, we should change it back to use deriveFont() everywhere. I'll test it on Mac to verify that it really works there.
Thanks. I forgot to say that I use Oracle JVM family (1.7 and 1.8).