You'd be very much advised to download xft/fontconfig from fontconfig.com and configure Abi with --enable-xft.
Dom On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 08:49 AM, Raphael Finkel wrote: > A few weeks ago I got a copy of Abiword source and compiled it under > Linux. > With some fiddling, I got a Unicode font (MS Arial) to show me > Hebrew/Yiddish > characters acceptably. Then last week I used CVS to update the copy, > and now > everything I type in or open in Hebrew/Yiddish is wrong. My setup: > > LANG=he_IL.utf-8; export LANG > > I have a utf-8 subdirectory of AbiSuite/fonts, in which: > * I have a copy of arial.ttf that I call arigl.ttf just to > disambiguate. > * fonts.scale has a line: > arigl.ttf -monotype-Arigl-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 > * fonts.dir is properly built from fonts.scale (looks identical) > * arigl.t42 and arigl.u2g have been built; both appear to > include codes for Hebrew/Yiddish. (Actually, these are symlinks to > arial.t42 and arial.u2g.) > > When I start AbiWord, it offers me arigl as one of the fonts it knows > about. So AbiWord is finding the fonts/utf-8 subdirectory. If my > fonts.scale > only includes the iso10646-1 line, I get no characters at all for > Hebrew/Yiddish in the Arigl font. If I add an iso8859-1 line, AbiWord > generates what looks like Latin-1 128-255 characters on the screen > instead of > Hebrew/Yiddish. If I change that to iso8859-8, then I get some > Hebrew/Yiddish > characters, but they are all wrong. It looks like the multi-byte utf8 > codes > are not being fed to the font displayer properly. They are being > treated as > multiple independent bytes. > > Raphael Finkel
