From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xpdf - missing fonts
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:50:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120109175028.GA7818@syscon7.inet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120109003135.GB19323@waltdnes.org>
On 01/08/12 19:31, Walter Dnes wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:40:04PM -0700, Joseph wrote
>> On 01/06/12 13:51, walt wrote:
>> >
>> >Try turning the NLS useflag on for your installed font packages that use
>> >NLS. Not all font packages use NLS, dunno why. To see which installed
>> >fonts use NLS:
>> >
>> >#eix -IU nls | grep fonts
>>
>> Aparenlty none of them:
>>
>> eix -IU nls | grep fonts
>> [I] media-fonts/font-misc-misc
>> Description: X.Org miscellaneous fonts
>
> I have a suggestion that goes in the opposite direction. It's part of
>bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368335
>
> For some reason, the default is now to generate Unicode encoding only
>(I believe it's iso10646), not iso8859-1 or any of the other local
>encodings. I ran into this when xfreecell refused to start, due to
>missing a specific iso8859-1 font. The bug can be worked around by
>editing the file /usr/portage/eclass/xorg-2.eclass I'm attaching my
>edited version.
>
>* Rename your current /usr/portage/eclass/xorg-2.eclass
>* substitute the version attached to this post
>* re-emerge all your fonts
>
> ***NOTE*** This eclass file tries to produce iso8859-1 only. Modify
>it if you want other iso code files.
>
> File attached...
>
>--
>Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I think you are correct on this one.
I'll try to modify your system.
What is the easiest way to re-emerge all the fonts on the system or list the one that are installed?
I've manually installed some of the fonts that I have on my other system and it partially solved the problem.
--
Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-09 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-03 22:15 [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts Joseph
2012-01-03 23:20 ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-03 23:42 ` Joseph
2012-01-04 10:52 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-01-04 13:52 ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-04 15:51 ` Joseph
2012-01-05 8:59 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-01-05 17:36 ` Joseph
2012-01-06 8:57 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-01-06 15:52 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-01-06 16:48 ` Joseph
2012-01-06 21:51 ` walt
2012-01-07 3:40 ` Joseph
2012-01-09 0:31 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-09 17:50 ` Joseph [this message]
2012-01-09 22:23 ` walt
2012-01-09 22:39 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-09 22:48 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-06 16:50 ` Joseph
2012-01-05 8:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Willie WY Wong
2012-01-05 17:50 ` Joseph
2012-01-06 9:05 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-01-06 16:44 ` Joseph
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