Comment 59 for bug 937200

pcworld, thanks for that test case.

Some helpful debug output can be had by running it like this:

    java -Dsun.java2d.debugfonts=true TestCase

It's especially instructive to do that after:

    gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name

and after:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'DejaVu Sans 11' # or 'Droid Sans 11', or something else

and compare the results.

This does seem to work properly in current trusty. I'll try to figure out whether it was fixed by a change in openjdk-7 or in some other package.