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lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

fonts-again

On the picture is same site www.debian.org with Firefox where fonts are correct and Konqueror which shows squares.
How can I save a problem which disturbing me more and more...

Thanks,

Mitja

gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: fonts-again

My guess is you are using a font in Konqueror which doesn't cover certain characters. You could try changing the default (web) font(s) in Konqueror to see if there is one which produces better results.

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lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: fonts-again

My guess is you are using a font in Konqueror which doesn't cover certain characters. You could try changing the default (web) font(s) in Konqueror to see if there is one which produces better results.

I did and result is like on the picture - same.

lumiwa

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Posts: 712

Re: fonts-again

In Konqueror-Settings-Configure Konqueror-Fonts-Standard Font I choose a Sans Serif and now Debian site shows correct but if I use Sans Serif font in Amarok it doesn't show correct.

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: fonts-again

Have you installed the ttf-ms-fonts package?
or use you sub-pix highliting?

ttf-ms-fonts
I used DejaVu but didn't work.

pacman -Qs fonts
local/artwiz-fonts 1.3-2
    This is set of (improved) artwiz fonts.
local/ec-fonts-mftraced 1.0.12-1
    Music notation fonts
local/fontsproto 2.0.2-1
    X11 font extension wire protocol
local/gsfonts 8.11-3
    Ghostscript standard Type1 fonts
local/mftrace 1.1.9-1
    Traces TeX bitmap fonts into PFA, PFB, or TTF
local/sdl_ttf 2.0.7-2
    A library that allows you to use TrueType fonts in your SDL applications
local/t1lib 5.1.0-2
    Library for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts
local/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-3
    Bitstream vera fonts
local/ttf-cheapskate 2.0-4
    TTFonts collection from dustimo.com
local/ttf-dejavu 2.4.1-1
    Font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts. DejaVu fonts provides a wider
    range of characters (Central European, etc.)
local/ttf-ms-fonts 1.3-7
    Un-extracted TTF Fonts from Microsoft
local/xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.0-2
    X.org 100dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.0-2
    X.org 75dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.1-1
    X.org font alias files
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.0-1
    X.org font encoding files
local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-2
    X.org misc fonts
local/xorg-fonts-type1 1.0.0-2
    X.org Type1 fonts

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: fonts-again

Use you sub-pix-hightliting?

I have ttf-ms-fonts (Microsoft) installed and Sans Serif fonts from MS.

I don't know how to use sub-pix-highlighting

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: fonts-again

you must enable it in the kde control center, i don't know the exactly option, I don't use kde

KDE Control-Center > Appearance > Fonts > Configure

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lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

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Re: fonts-again

you must enable it in the kde control center, i don't know the exactly option, I don't use kde

KDE Control-Center > Appearance > Fonts > Configure

Aha...yes, I had it and it didn't help for my problem.

RaLX

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Registered: 2005-10-17

Posts: 54

Re: fonts-again

you must enable it in the kde control center, i don't know the exactly option, I don't use kde

KDE Control-Center > Appearance > Fonts > Configure

Aha...yes, I had it and it didn't help for my problem.

Did you try the partial solution I told you in previous post?, use a ISO8859-1 locale and then no more squares in KDE but appear some "glyphs" in terminal apps, at least there are less "glyphs" than squares in my case.

In my case the same problem is with some chars like á é í ó ú, it's not a font problem because it shows the letters in some cases correctly with the same font (Bitstream Vera Sans by the way), it seems like some kind of locale problem, not sure if belongs to Arch or packages because in others distribution with similar config I didn't see this. 

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: fonts-again

On the picture is same site www.debian.org with Firefox where fonts are correct and Konqueror which shows squares.
How can I save a problem which disturbing me more and more...

Open Konqueror and goto Settings > Configure Konq > Fonts
Change the Standard Font to Sans Serif.

Save, then close Konq and reopen.
Any change in those debian.org fonts??

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lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: fonts-again

KDE Control-Center > Appearance > Fonts > Configure

Aha...yes, I had it and it didn't help for my problem.

Did you try the partial solution I told you in previous post?, use a ISO8859-1 locale and then no more squares in KDE but appear some "glyphs" in terminal apps, at least there are less "glyphs" than squares in my case.

In my case the same problem is with some chars like á é í ó ú, it's not a font problem because it shows the letters in some cases correctly with the same font (Bitstream Vera Sans by the way), it seems like some kind of locale problem, not sure if belongs to Arch or packages because in others distribution with similar config I didn't see this. 

I did. If I had ISO8859-1 there are no changes in console and no in KDE. If I put UTF-8 than I have in console "glyphs" but in KDE is same.
If I have LOCALE=(empty) than are same too. As I wrote before If I choose Sans Serif is for many pages okay. Sans Serif font nothing help for Amarok.

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: fonts-again

Now look that Amarok works. I chang font in Amarok settings to Luxi Sans.
I thing all this mess start after KDE 3.5.2.

RaLX

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Registered: 2005-10-17

Posts: 54

Re: fonts-again

I'm starting to think it's some kind of bug, another guy started a similar thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … highlight=