diff --git a/src/java.desktop/share/classes/sun/awt/FontConfiguration.java b/src/java.desktop/share/classes/sun/awt/FontConfiguration.java
index 215cff556a2..ba1aa41a0b3 100644
--- a/src/java.desktop/share/classes/sun/awt/FontConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/java.desktop/share/classes/sun/awt/FontConfiguration.java
@@ -852,11 +852,6 @@ public abstract class FontConfiguration {
         return parts;
     }
 
-    protected String[] split(String sequence) {
-        Vector<String> v = splitSequence(sequence);
-        return v.toArray(new String[0]);
-    }
-
     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     // Methods for extracting information from the fontconfig data for AWT//
     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
diff --git a/src/java.desktop/unix/classes/sun/font/MFontConfiguration.java b/src/java.desktop/unix/classes/sun/font/MFontConfiguration.java
index 73c61428059..c6fbc1b699b 100644
--- a/src/java.desktop/unix/classes/sun/font/MFontConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/java.desktop/unix/classes/sun/font/MFontConfiguration.java
@@ -74,8 +74,7 @@ public class MFontConfiguration extends FontConfiguration {
         reorderMap.put("UTF-8.zh.TW", "chinese-tw-iso10646");
         reorderMap.put("UTF-8.zh.HK", "chinese-tw-iso10646");
         reorderMap.put("UTF-8.zh.CN", "chinese-cn-iso10646");
-        reorderMap.put("x-euc-jp-linux",
-                        split("japanese-x0201,japanese-x0208"));
+        reorderMap.put("x-euc-jp-linux", new String[] {"japanese-x0201", "japanese-x0208"});
         reorderMap.put("GB2312", "chinese-gb18030");
         reorderMap.put("Big5", "chinese-big5");
         reorderMap.put("EUC-KR", "korean");
diff --git a/src/java.desktop/windows/classes/sun/awt/windows/WFontConfiguration.java b/src/java.desktop/windows/classes/sun/awt/windows/WFontConfiguration.java
index c3a5a24e379..c663f8b4807 100644
--- a/src/java.desktop/windows/classes/sun/awt/windows/WFontConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/java.desktop/windows/classes/sun/awt/windows/WFontConfiguration.java
@@ -79,8 +79,7 @@ public final class WFontConfiguration extends FontConfiguration {
         reorderMap.put("GBK", "chinese-ms936");
         reorderMap.put("GB18030", "chinese-gb18030");
         reorderMap.put("x-windows-950", "chinese-ms950");
-        reorderMap.put("x-MS950-HKSCS", split("chinese-ms950,chinese-hkscs"));
-//      reorderMap.put("windows-1252", "alphabetic");
+        reorderMap.put("x-MS950-HKSCS", new String[] {"chinese-ms950", "chinese-hkscs"});
     }
 
     @Override