diff --git a/src/share/classes/sun/font/NullFontScaler.java b/src/share/classes/sun/font/NullFontScaler.java
index 739a8d95367336c1f153491ca49d5c260caa7972..3d80f6d9b2eb800a36a99416285de9b4c620311d 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/sun/font/NullFontScaler.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/sun/font/NullFontScaler.java
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class NullFontScaler extends FontScaler {
     }
 
     int getNumGlyphs() throws FontScalerException {
-        return 0;
+        return 1;
     }
 
     int getMissingGlyphCode() throws FontScalerException {