12768. Font name in FSDefineFont2, FSFontInfo[2] has trailing null.

The getName() method on FSDefineFont, FSFontInfo and FSFontInfow contains the trailing null used to terminate the string.

Root Cause

The specification for the font definition objects includes a fields that gives the length in bytes for the name of the font. This implies that there is no terminating null byte but in reality there is. As a result the decoding of the font name as a UTF-8 string also includes the terminating null.

Workaround?

There is no workaround however changing he source code is simple. In FSDefineFont2.java after line 855:

name = coder.readString(nameLength);

add the following code to strip off any trailing nulls:

while (name.charAt(name.length()-1) == 0) {
    name = name.substring(0, name.length()-1);
}

Repeat the same step with FSFontInfo.java on line 408 and with FSFontInfo2.java on line 383.

When will it be fixed?

This was fixed in Transform 2.1.6 released on 31-Dec-2007