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. "


-- 
Liviu