---Reply to mail from Marcin Parzynski about national characters > I have a similar problem with AbiWord for Windows: all national (Polish in my > case) characters look fine when on screen, but disappear in printing (except > Arial CE). I > use Windows 95 PL, printer HP 600. Other word editors (MS Office, StarOffice) > work > perfectly in this OS/printer combo. Any idea? :) > Greetings > Marcin > > 02-04-07 12:42:00, Piotr Biernat > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> How can I get national characters (Polish in my case) in > AbiWord? >>> The GUI is perfectly nationalized but when I try to write > national >>> characters, it seems to me that I get ISO-8859-1 > characters instead of >>> ISO-8859-2 coded ones. >> >>AbiWord uses its own fonts for displaying text (afm, pfm - > I sense LaTeX >>fonts here!!!) and X-window fonts for Gtk GUI (that's why > you see GUI >>nationalized). Try to copy your fonts into your subdir in > fontdir of >>AbiWord (i don't remember exact path right now;) and make > that subdir name >>like pl_PL. Then, if you change LANG to pl_PL AbiWord will > use your fonts >>as default (IIRC). >> >>ONE correction: in AbiSuite fontdir make a dir (or symlink) > names not >>"pl_PL" but "ISO-8859-2" (or any other ISO-, if you use > different >>fontsets). Sorry for that mess folks, I was writing from > memory, not >>looking at my home computer paths :) >
Hello, This Tips/Trick with a fonts dir name does not work on RedHat7.2 machine. After doing it AW still does not find the fonts. Is there a real work around to make AW to use other then iso8859-1 fonts? Bronek ---End reply -- Bronislaw B. Baraniecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Dzi� wiem, �e w z�o si� trzeba, jak w szelest, zas�ucha� -- �e je �atwiej wykrwawi�, ni�li udobrucha�. Mg�a mi z r�ki wr�y�a... Pami�tam szept cienia... Nim cios we mnie uderzy� -- wprz�d zbrak�o zbawienia. (Le�mian) --------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
