Can someone pls tell me why?

Question

Hi,
Im using a fixed pitch font which I thought meant that the distance between chars was always the same
So using a fixed pitch font u can determine the max height and width of any char.
The following code though shows this is not true. Am i using the wrong methods? I get the maxWidth being 8 yet X is width is 7!?!
Thanks all
private Font fixedPitch = new Font("Lucida Console", Font.PLAIN,  12);
  private FontMetrics fontMet;
    fontMet = getFontMetrics(fixedPitch);
    m_FontHeight = fontMet.getHeight();
    m_FontWidth  = fontMet.getMaxAdvance();
    System.out.println("Max Height: " +m_FontHeight);
    System.out.println("Max Width: " + m_FontWidth);
    int width = fontMet.charWidth('X');
    System.out.println("Test should equal max width! " + width);

Answer 1

Okay, so don't just test with X. Do all letters have the same charWidth?
Im using a fixed pitch font which I thought meant that the distance between chars was always the sameI would have thought it meant that every character used the same width when printed. This would mean that the distance between two letter I's would be more than the distance between two letter W's.