On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:24:36PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:47:01PM +0100, alberto hernando wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I (too) have problems with foreign fonts and x.org. I want to see Japanese > > characters in x.org-7.3, and I've followed recent discussions about this, so > > this is what I tried: [snipped] And no sooner had I sent off my previous follow-up about kcharselect, than I've got my own example of a page which renders fine in firefox, but not in konqueror:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/dinka.php The alphabet and pronunciation parts all render correctly, which isn't a surprise because they are graphics (some of these african letters with diaeresis aren't available as precomposed glyphs in unicode). The problem is with the second word on the page (and also the following paragraph) - in konqueror I get squares for the open o (ɔ) and the eng (ŋ). Strangely, if I then use View -> View Document Source it all renders correctly. I'll opine that kde3 isn't very good at handling fonts where certain glyphs are not provided. For myself, I'll stick to firefox and epiphany when I hit these "difficult" examples ;) Actually, I have a workaround: disregard my original reply about using kcontrol! In konqueror, change Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Fonts : after I changed all the entries here to FreeSans and FreeSerif it renders correctly. Obviously, using the 'free' fonts is only likely to help people using the less common glyphs from the latin, cyrillic, and perhaps greek, alphabets - it doesn't seem likely to help for alberto's original problem. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
