59804 – Default font for text editor cannot display Japanese characters

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Bug 59804 - Default font for text editor cannot display Japanese characters

Summary: Default font for text editor cannot display Japanese characters

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56915

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version:	3.0
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Tod Creasey
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Reported:	2004-04-23 13:02 EDT by Paul Elder
Modified:	2004-04-29 12:58 EDT (History)
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Description Paul Elder

2004-04-23 13:02:47 EDT

This was discovered using Japanese Windows, but can be reproduced using English
Windows with Japanse fonts installed.

The default font for editors (as specified in
Window->Preferences->Workbench->Colors and Fonts, with Category set to
"Uncategorized") is "Courier New-regular-10". This font does not display
Japanese characters; instead, block characters are displayed.

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2004-04-26 10:06:50 EDT

Which build are you working on? This was an issue in the StyledText in M8 but 
has since been fixed. See Bug 56915

Comment 2 Paul Elder

2004-04-26 11:06:11 EDT

I am using the WSWB M8 derivative (wswb-30M8-200403311308).

This is definitely a font choice problem. Using preferences to change to a font
that supports Japanese scripts allows the text to display correctly.

In addition, I can cut & paste the block characters to Notepad, and they display
correctly. (So the editor has the correct character codes.)

Finally, if I save & reload the file, cut & paste (or font change) both reveal
the correct characters. (So persisting the character data to a file is correct.)

This appears to be a duplicate of Bug 56915.

Comment 3 Steve Northover

2004-04-28 12:45:17 EDT

This has nothing to do with SWT.  Eclipse needs to choose a font that is 
capable of displaying these characters.  A good font was chosen in the past.  
Did something change?

Comment 4 Tod Creasey

2004-04-29 12:58:30 EDT

This font has always been Courier - this was a regression from 3.0.

it is a dup of Bug 56915

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56915 ***