hi!
since blackbox 0.60.1 i'm having problems with fonts and nls. a while ago
i wrote about this, but no one had an idea. i have now digged deeper into
this problem.
first of, if i have my LANG variable set to C, this problem doesn't exist
at all (http://www.hot.ee/odt/iso8859-1.png). probably, because of the
ISO-8859-1 character set which then is used. but i'd like to have my LANG
variable set to et_EE, which stands for estonian and will use the ISO-8859-15
character set. now instead of the usual lucidasans-10/12 etc. font aliases,
which most styles use, i get some really weird fonts -(http://www.hot.ee/odt/
et_EE.png). then i switched to ru_RU which is russian and relies on the
ISO-8859-5 charset. logged out and in (gnome display manager gdm) again and
the fonts were also kinda weird, but different (http://www.hot.ee/odt/
ru_RU.png). i also tested the tr_TR LANG setting (ISO-8859-9) and ended up
with the same sort of fonts as with ru_RU (http://www.hot.ee/odt/tr_TR.png).
sv_SE, es_ES and pt_BR don't have that problem, probably also because those
languages make use of the standard ISO-8859-1 character set i guess. (the
.pngs are made with the AzureGrace style which has a single font-specific
line - *Font: lucidasans-10.).
now i'd like to know, are there people out there, who use the ru_RU or tr_TR
settings and the respective nls files with blackbox? are fonts behaving the
usual / normal way? does somebody know why i get such weird fonts?
i use the standard x-packages of debian found in the woody/x11 dir. all my
stuff is of version 3.3.6-6.
on truetype fonts - i replaced all the *font entries in my favorite style
with ttf lines and learned the following: the fonts are displayed correctly,
but somehow they are rendered too tall. what's happening there? all my other
apps which use ttf's don't draw 1pt spaces between lines (the evidence is at
http://www.hot.ee/odt/ttf-menu.png). anyone else seeing that?
you can say ./configure --disable-nls, but i'd like to know what's going on
behind my back there and also use the translated .cat file. any help is
appreciated.
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regards,
odt // aim for the moon, if you miss you may hit a star
