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Bug 50648 - I18N: Font size is too large on Chinese Windows
Summary: I18N: Font size is too large on Chinese Windows
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 4.x
Hardware: Other Windows XP
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Ken Frank
URL:
Keywords: I18N
Depends on:
Blocks: 81781
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Reported: 2004-10-20 11:37 UTC by agctools
Modified: 2008-12-22 10:41 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description agctools 2004-10-20 11:37:50 UTC 
Steps:
1. install NetBeans3.6 ml
2. launch the IDE on Chinese windows OS

Result:
On windows machine, the font size for the IDE
layout (menu, button...) is too large. The
Workaround is to start ide with -fontsize option
and assign fontsize 12.

Hope this can be fixed since current layout makes
our products look so strange and different from
other software.

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* This should be i18n issue.

The default font size is specified by the message
CTL_globalFontSize in
core/src/org/netbeans/core/Bundle.properties. if
no value is specified to the property, the
fontsize is 11px. but for chinese version, the
size is too small, and chinese characters displays
very ugly. on Windows platform, the minimal
acceptable font size is 12px, but for Solaris and
Linux, the minimal acceptable font size is 14px
(for a JDK bug: 4892005).

considering the visual quality on solaris and
linux, we set the font size to 14px for Chinese.
that causes the difference from other windows
application.
Comment 1 jrojcek 2004-10-21 16:58:37 UTC 
I don't know exactly where this one belongs.
Comment 2 Petr Hrebejk 2004-10-26 14:05:12 UTC 
Reassigning to our i18n expert, maybe he would know what to do about that.
Comment 3 Ken Frank 2004-10-26 18:14:30 UTC 
I'm not sure this is a bug, though I can see the point being made.

I think the explanation given as to why the fontsize for 
chinese is at 14pt is accurate, and at the time, we did not
discriminate between windows and unix, just made the
fontsize 14.

So I think the workaround can be ok, at least for this release.

I'd suggest filing an RFE about having a separate bundle value
for unix and for windows, so that for windows, it would show at
the 11pt default.

ken.frank@sun.com
10/26/2004
Comment 4 Jaroslav Tulach 2004-10-27 15:15:50 UTC 
This is a remainder to you, the owner of this bug, that this issue has P3, is
reported against 4.0 and its target milestone has not yet been set. Please set
the milestone, fix the issue or change its priority by tomorrow. Thank you for
helping NetBeans to get ready for code freeze.
Comment 5 agctools 2005-02-04 09:05:34 UTC 
It may not be a bug. We just hope the look&feel of the nb IDE is
better. Then we suggest using different font sizes at different
platforms in zh locale. We don't know when it will be realized. So we
set the milestone "future".
Comment 6 Marian Mirilovic 2005-07-13 23:29:15 UTC 
closed