OpenJDK7 and NetBeans: Who can use non-English fonts on NetBeans?

[葉佳威 Jiawei Ye]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Daichi GOTO <daichi at ongs.co.jp> wrote:

> Hi Java guys,
>
> Who can use non-English fonts on NetBeans with OpenJDK6?
> I have tried some methods to use Japanese fonts with that,
> but I have all faild :-(
>
> If you have any ideas, please teach me. Thanks
>
> --


>  Daichi GOTO, http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi


One evil trick is to go to your ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/fonts and put a
"fallback" directory link to your actual font dir.

ex. on my system

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      34  8 29 11:56 fallback ->
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/

This gives me much better Chinese fonts (I put my Mac fonts in there).

HTH,

Jiawei

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