* [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters
@ 2006-10-16 9:11 Liviu Andronic
2006-10-16 9:33 ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Liviu Andronic @ 2006-10-16 9:11 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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.
Any ideas?
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Liviu
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* Re: [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters
2006-10-16 9:11 [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters Liviu Andronic
@ 2006-10-16 9:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-16 9:50 ` Liviu Andronic
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2006-10-16 9:33 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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* Re: [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters
2006-10-16 9:33 ` Alan McKinnon
@ 2006-10-16 9:50 ` Liviu Andronic
2006-10-17 13:35 ` fei huang
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From: Liviu Andronic @ 2006-10-16 9:50 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On 10/16/06, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>
> 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
>
I did. They are merged with the system. The problem is that GTK or freetype
(don't what would be technically correct) refuses to display them
correctly. "They display a series of four numbers instead of a given
character. "
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* Re: [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters
2006-10-16 9:50 ` Liviu Andronic
@ 2006-10-17 13:35 ` fei huang
2006-10-17 16:02 ` Liviu Andronic
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From: fei huang @ 2006-10-17 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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I'm not sure, but have a look at your locale settings.. good luck
daniel
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* Re: [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters
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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From: Liviu Andronic @ 2006-10-17 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On 10/17/06, fei huang <daniel.huangfei@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure, but have a look at your locale settings.. good luck
I currently have LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 set in
/etc/env.d/02locale. And I have the appropriate env variables.
Does anyone know which variable might affect displaying fonts - in general -
or unicode characters - in particular?
daniel
>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters
2006-10-17 16:02 ` Liviu Andronic
@ 2006-10-18 13:26 ` fei huang
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From: fei huang @ 2006-10-18 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On 10/18/06, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On 10/17/06, fei huang <daniel.huangfei@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure, but have a look at your locale settings.. good luck
>
> I currently have LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 set in
> /etc/env.d/02locale. And I have the appropriate env variables.
>
I don't have that file, note that not all applications support UTF-8 yet,
don't know where the characters are being displayed, try other applications,
type 'locale' to see what exactly the current locale is.
one thing, you'll be better off with a empty LC_ALL , but en.US.UTF-8 for
you LANG.
good luck
Does anyone know which variable might affect displaying fonts - in general -
> or unicode characters - in particular?
>
>
> daniel
> >
>
>
>
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