Why are Japanese font mappings broken when displayed in a Java AWT application?

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Issue

  • Java AWT based GUI applications running in the Japanese locale show no fonts, only placeholders are displayed.
  • Japanese font mappings are broken
  • Java GUI applications running in Japanese locale show no fonts.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
  • java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-1.6.0.8.1.x86_64.

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