On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:42:34PM -0300, Carlos Henrique Santos Laviola wrote: > Hi people, > > I have installed xfstt on my system, and it works great, but I still > have a problem with it: I can't display characters like the ' in Joe's > correctly (they look like Joe?s on the screen). I have heard that's a > encoding problem, so I put on my /etc/init.d/xfstt:
In HTML? Yes. Microsoft encodes these characters in a nonuniform manner. There is a program called the demoronizer which corrects this problem by replacing the characters in question. > ARGS="--port $portno $daemon --user $newuser --encoding > iso8859-1,windows-1252" > > I have the newest version of xfstt (1.1.6). > > Also, do you have any tips on getting TrueType fonts to work with > StarOffice / WordPerfect 8? I could convert my TTF fonts to Type1 (.pfb) > and then display (most of) them on the screen with StarOffice, but it > refuses to print something I write with them. Can't, AFAIK, WordPerfect -- Corel has its own broken independent font support. You have to buy the non-free version of WP to get fonts. Not sure what the situation with StarOffice is, but there are several websites out which address (if not resolve) these questions. > Please redirect answers to my e-mail (I am not subscribed to the list). Preferred form is to request a cc:. Communal knowledge and all that. -- Karsten M. Self ([email protected]) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Scope out Scoop: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin: http://www.kuro5hin.org/
