[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I would not ordinarily care about Windows pseudo-graphics characters, but
for one brief moment on one project I need to manipulate them a bit.  This is
a bit hard on KDE and gentoo as things stand because the terminals don't
know about that encoding/font/codepage/whatever.

I see there's a way to make my terminals speak a variety of encodings, but
the ones I've tried don't help.  Anybody out there know how to do this?

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

[Jesús Guerrero]

El Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:28:05 -0800
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com> escribió:

> I would not ordinarily care about Windows pseudo-graphics characters,
> but for one brief moment on one project I need to manipulate them a
> bit.  This is a bit hard on KDE and gentoo as things stand because
> the terminals don't know about that encoding/font/codepage/whatever.
> 
> I see there's a way to make my terminals speak a variety of
> encodings, but the ones I've tried don't help.  Anybody out there
> know how to do this?
> 
> ++ kevin
> 

If you are talking about the webdings set, it is included along with
many other MS fonts into the corefonts package. Make sure you have it
installed, then make sure you have a line for that font dir in your
xorg.conf:

Section "Files"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hunkyfonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk-fonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/kochi-substitute"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/intlfonts"
EndSection

Then restart X or do this:

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/corefonts && xset fp rehash

Now the font is installed and  apps can see it, it might depend on each
concrete app how to use it from now on.

Jesús Guerrero

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