Japanese font conf for JDK16 to use IPA font

Maho NAKATA chat95 at mac.com
Mon Mar 2 23:43:09 PST 2009


Daichi san

Sorry for changing my mind...this is just suggestion.
IPA font is good but license is too restrictive.
VLGothic is free font and ubuntu uses as user interface font.
Fallback to VLGothic may useful for some environment.

Thanks,

From: Daichi GOTO <daichi at ongs.co.jp>
Subject: Japanese font conf for JDK16 to use IPA font
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:51:06 +0900

> Hi greg :)
>
> How about to deploy or integrate included fontconfig.properties
> file to /usr/local/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties or
> /usr/local/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties.src.
>
> I have known some Japanese java developers have been giving up to
> use FreeBSD and Java as their default development environment
> because FreeBSD JDK16 default configurations lacks of proper
> Japanese font setting.
>
> Right now, IPA font(japanese/ipa-ttfonts) is proper high quality
> font as Japanese font. To enable that font as default font makes
> a lot of sense.
>
> I have checked included one with JDK16 and OpenJDK6, that looks
> like working well.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> --
>   Daichi GOTO, http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi
>
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