Comment 44 for bug 289784

(In reply to comment #0)
I'm no 2-d expert, but these appear to be the same bug:

swing TextLayout.getBounds() returns shifted bounds
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227

OpenJDK: vertical text metrics may be significanly different from
those returned by Sun JDK
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6761856

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