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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:33:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610161133.52720.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68b1e2610610160211n4f7d244ctf893f14cd534f97a@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 16 October 2006 11:11, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> My system doesn't seem to be able to render certain fonts, mainly
> corefonts (Microsoft Arial, Verdana & Co.), but also unicode
> characters (Cyrillic, French diacritics, etc. of Sans, Vera and some
> other). They display a series of four numbers instead of a given
> character. The only font that is doing the job acceptably well - that
> is displays correctly all these characters - is Dejavu.
>
> I have re-emerged freetype with
> -bindist. And I would really like to be able to set some Verdana or
> Arial non-antialiased font as GTK default.

emerge corefonts

alan
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-16  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-16  9:11 [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters Liviu Andronic
2006-10-16  9:33 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-10-16  9:50   ` Liviu Andronic
2006-10-17 13:35     ` fei huang
2006-10-17 16:02       ` Liviu Andronic
2006-10-18 13:26         ` fei huang

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