[gentoo-user] Fonts in Firefox-bin

[gentoo-user] Fonts in Firefox-bin

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   In an regular email I get from Apple a number of characters show up
as little boxes that say "00 93" and "00 94". In the following quote
the quotes at 'launching' and the quote at the end are bad until I
paste it into GMail which seems to take care of it. The two quotes at
the beginning are fine.

In "Hands-on with Aperture," David Schloss (pdnonline) offers a fairly
detailed overview of the application Apple expects to ship later this
month. Aperture, says Schloss, is "launching out of the gate with more
features and functionality than anything else to date. With Aperture,
Apple has the ability to bring a whole new level of sophistication to
the post-production market place."

1) This is a font issue, right?

2) If so, how do I determine what Apple's HTML is looking for?

3) Generally, what fonts do folks load to get the best results on this stuff?

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts in Firefox-bin

[Michael Crute]

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On 11/11/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> In an regular email I get from Apple a number of characters show up
> as little boxes that say "00 93" and "00 94". In the following quote
> the quotes at 'launching' and the quote at the end are bad until I
> paste it into GMail which seems to take care of it. The two quotes at
> the beginning are fine.
>
> In "Hands-on with Aperture," David Schloss (pdnonline) offers a fairly
> detailed overview of the application Apple expects to ship later this
> month. Aperture, says Schloss, is "launching out of the gate with more
> features and functionality than anything else to date. With Aperture,
> Apple has the ability to bring a whole new level of sophistication to
> the post-production market place."
>
> 1) This is a font issue, right?
>
> 2) If so, how do I determine what Apple's HTML is looking for?
>
> 3) Generally, what fonts do folks load to get the best results on this
> stuff?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

I ran into this same issue only for me it was with Asian characters. I
re-compiled X with the cjk (multi-byte characters) use flag and everything
works perfectly now. I would try that first (even though re-compiling X is a
long painful process).

-Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts in Firefox-bin

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/11/05, Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    In an regular email I get from Apple a number of characters show up
> > as little boxes that say "00 93" and "00 94". In the following quote
> > the quotes at 'launching' and the quote at the end are bad until I
> > paste it into GMail which seems to take care of it. The two quotes at
> > the beginning are fine.
> >
> > In "Hands-on with Aperture," David Schloss (pdnonline) offers a fairly
> > detailed overview of the application Apple expects to ship later this
> > month. Aperture, says Schloss, is "launching out of the gate with more
> > features and functionality than anything else to date. With Aperture,
> > Apple has the ability to bring a whole new level of sophistication to
> > the post-production market place."
> >
> > 1) This is a font issue, right?
> >
> > 2) If so, how do I determine what Apple's HTML is looking for?
> >
> > 3) Generally, what fonts do folks load to get the best results on this
> stuff?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
>
> I ran into this same issue only for me it was with Asian characters. I
> re-compiled X with the cjk (multi-byte characters) use flag and everything
> works perfectly now. I would try that first (even though re-compiling X is a
> long painful process).
>
> -Mike

Hi Mike,
   Tried it but no success. I'm still getting the little 2 character things.

   Here's how I did the xorg emerge. I wonder about the font server?
Did you emerge with that option?

lightning ~ # emerge -pv xorg-x11

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6  (-3dfx) (-3dnow)
+bitmap-fonts +cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server
-insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal (-mmx) +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk
(-sse) -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #


Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts in Firefox-bin

[Michael Crute]

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On 11/11/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I ran into this same issue only for me it was with Asian characters. I
> > re-compiled X with the cjk (multi-byte characters) use flag and
> everything
> > works perfectly now. I would try that first (even though re-compiling X
> is a
> > long painful process).
> >
> > -Mike
>
> Hi Mike,
> Tried it but no success. I'm still getting the little 2 character things.
>
> Here's how I did the xorg emerge. I wonder about the font server?
> Did you emerge with that option?
>
> lightning ~ # emerge -pv xorg-x11
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 (-3dfx) (-3dnow)
> +bitmap-fonts +cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server
> -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal (-mmx) +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk
> (-sse) -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
>

My X install looks like this:

cruteme@cruter /etc $ emerge -pv xorg-x11

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts +cjk
-debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers -ipv6 -minimal
+mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts
(-uclibc) +xprint +xv 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

I actually un-emerged the font server a while back and haven't suffered any
adverse effects. Can you send me a link or a copy of this email (provided
its not confidential or anything) to see if I can duplicate what you are
seeing?

-Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts in Firefox-bin

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/11/05, Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you send me a link or a copy of this email (provided
> its not confidential or anything) to see if I can duplicate what you are
> seeing?
>
>
>  -Mike
>

Doing so off line.
 Thanks!

- Mark

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