From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: An attributed string drops all but the first letter when used in a Java program. This happens with all jres from 1.3 to 1.5 and with those from both IBM and Sun. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 681 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create an attributed string with font information 2.Display it 3. Actual Results: Only the first character is displayed Expected Results: String should display Additional info: So far we have not been able to trace this to a particular call but several programs are failing with customers. This did not happen with RH9. Both RH9 and FC3 were tried and only FC3 failed.
I suspect you will have to go to IBM/Sun and talk to them about the problem since it could simply be a bug in the JREs (perhaps due to reliance on bugs in older versions of glibc for example). Without the source code to the JREs there's no way any one else to quickly verify where the problem is though...
The source for both the Sun and the IBM jre are available. Most of the source is in a jar file with the distribution download. I suspected the problem might be due to missing fonts but that turned out not to be true. I will trace the failing code back to Linux today and see just where the failure is coming from. I suspect both IBM and Sun are going to point to RH. I just want the problem fixed.
Further testing shows that all but one of the Sun jres also fails. The one jre that doesn't fail is the latest 1.4.2 beta. The 1.5 beta is worse than the 1.4.1 release. I will attempt to get IBM and Sun involved but this appears to be a problem in a Linux library.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
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