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[Qianqian Fang <fangqq@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Attachment added: "wrong Chinese metrics in the top file-name box (but not the left panel)"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35033762/java_chinese_font.png

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wrong metric for Chinese font in OpenJDK applications
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472845
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Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: New

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.