Monospace italic font is not monospace in java (regression)

It works fine after now!

(don't know which update and when exactly has fixed it)

Latest updates has been installed. Italicized monospace is not monospaced.
This is not a serious bug but quite annoying.

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Reproduced in 10.04 and 8.04 with all updates installed. Not fixed for now.

reassigning, since java does use its own font configuration and not fontconfig.

Reassigning, since sun-java6 is affected, openjdk-6 is not tested.

Confirmed in Netbeans on fresh install of Lucid with OpenJDK. Installing Netbeans installs openjdk-6.

Workaround: I installed ttf-dejavu (which pulls in ttf-dejavu-extra by dependency), and the italic fonts in Netbeans display properly after restarting it.

I'm also seeing this problem on 10.04 with all updates applied. It has worked fine in previous versions of Ubuntu.

As a full-time Java developer on linux, I wouldn't classify this as an "annoyance" but as severe. It affects any Java program trying to use monospaced italic fonts. So if you are doing any kind of java UI development, you cannot use Ubuntu 10.04 if you expect it to display correctly.

confirmed for lucid with openjdk-6. looking at /etc/java-6-openjdk/fontconfig.properties I don't see any obvious problems. But then the config file is for openjdk-6 only and would not explain the issue for sun-java6.

The fact that installing ttf-dejavu works around the problem shows that some of the fallback fonts lead to the selection of the non mono font. So there is some fontconfig information wrong (and it shows up with both openjdk-6 and usn-java6).

The other issue is that we should maybe update the fontconfig.properties not to use DejaVu anymore, but the default font (which is?)

this was caused by moving some font variants from ttf-dejavu-core to ttf-dejavu-extra. For now, just install the ttf-dejavu-extra package.

openjdk-6-jre will recommend ttf-dejavu-extra for maverick.

This bug was fixed in the package openjdk-6 - 6b20~pre2-0ubuntu1

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openjdk-6 (6b20~pre2-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=high

  * Update from the IcedTea6 trunk.
    - (CVE-2010-2783): IcedTea 'Extended JNLP Services' arbitrary file access.
    - (CVE-2010-2548): IcedTea incomplete property access check for unsigned
      applications
  * openjdk-6-jre: Recommend ttf-dejavu-extra. LP: #569396.
  * Explicitely fail the build on armel. The ARM assembler interpreter is
    disabled and would a 3-5x performance regression compared to the current
    6b18 armel binaries in the archive.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:10:53 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package openjdk-6 - 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1

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openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1) lucid-security; urgency=high

  * IcedTea6 1.8.1 release.
    - Fix security flaw in NetX that allows arbitrary unsigned apps to set
      any java property.
    - Fix security flaw in NetX that allows unsigned code to access any file
      on the machine (accessible to the user) and write to it.
  * openjdk-6-jre: Recommend ttf-dejavu-extra. LP: #569396.
  * Don't build the plugin on sparc for hardy and jaunty releases.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
  * Rebuild with fixed ant.
  * Disable building the shark based VM on armel.
  * Always build the ARM assembler interpreter in arm mode.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Plugin and netx fixes.
    - Don't link the plugin against the libxul libraries. Closes: #576361.
    - More plugin cpu usage fixes. Closes: #584335, #587049.
    - Plugin: fixes AppletContext.getApplets().
    - Fix race conditions in plugin initialization code that were causing
      hangs when loading multiple applets in parallel.
  * Fix Vcs-Bzr location. Closes: #530883.
  * Search for unversioned llvm-config tool.
  * Don't set XFILESEARCHPATH and NLSPATH on startup. LP: #586641.
  * Fix chinese font metrics and prefer using 'WenQuanYi Micro Hei' font.
    LP: #472845.
  * Strip libjvm.so with --strip-debug instead of --strip-unneeded.
    LP: #574997.
  * Don't turn on the ARM assembler interpreter when building the shark
    VM.

openjdk-6 (6b18-1.8-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update from the 1.8 branch.
    - Plugin fixes. LP: #597714.
  * Add powerpcspe build fixes (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior). Closes: #586359.
  * Work around build failure on buildds configured with low ARG_MAX
    (Giovanni Mascellani). Closes: #575254.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:39:23 +0200

Do we know this bug exists with sun-java or is that speculation. Just trying to get the accurate status on the bug, thanks. :)

Yes, this affects sun java as well.

ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
/etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

java -version
java version "1.6.0_20"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode)

Italic font is not monospace after removing ttf-dejavu and ttf-dejavu-extra.

Actually, i've tested OpenJDK 6b22-1.10.2-0ubuntu1~11.04.1 and java-6-sun-1.6.0.26 for this issue, but both suffer from it. Italic bold font looks ugly, so i don't think it was solved.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I had this problem with Netbeans and 10.04 LTS. Solved by doing.

$ sudo apt-get install ttf-dejavu-extra

Regards,