From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GZPDg-000859-KU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:57:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9G9rPVm004095; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:53:25 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9G9oJqX029560 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:50:20 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so2514847nfa for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:50:19 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=d4K80DGYYTjxhFyuhi/z3el7v9BLApJPqaS/qsAjpajP+1aA8+HNc83u4RcZVmVTHsnRTLPldrBckafL2vqDsdJEZdt+z2AZzwHgTTYnjLx7F01DXB+c2g2xOFIBxLxp39vDUVTKW4yNrbW2km02Xm5AeY1cx009oyftyQbI6Xg= Received: by 10.49.94.20 with SMTP id w20mr11811758nfl; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.85.17 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <68b1e2610610160250i7eba43ej846afaf9aeeb2d9d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:50:19 +0200 From: "Liviu Andronic" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters In-Reply-To: <200610161133.52720.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_122262_30610640.1160992219366" References: <68b1e2610610160211n4f7d244ctf893f14cd534f97a@mail.gmail.com> <200610161133.52720.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-Archives-Salt: 9e84d404-e401-4a25-9bd3-74141d87815b X-Archives-Hash: 9d0387fda956f68b6d1a74fbfeb5b923 ------=_Part_122262_30610640.1160992219366 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/16/06, Alan McKinnon 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 ------=_Part_122262_30610640.1160992219366 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

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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