How to get Konqueror to display _all_ characters?

lucke · 2007-03-06 19:10:25

Dejavu is the same as Bitstream Vera, but with more characters.

Try it (ttf-dejavu).

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-06 19:29:49

Solved the problem. Now I understand, why DejaVu is chosen as standard over Bitstream.

Another question: utf8 is standard for my system, but it seems as if KDE still uses ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15. Where to change the encoding globally?

Last edited by chaosgeisterchen (2007-03-06 19:32:15)

lucke · 2007-03-06 19:43:27

Konqueror, Konsole and Kate/KWrite/KEdit have a settable encoding.

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-06 19:53:39

What about Ark? I got a *.rar-File here, which has corrupted encoding and therefore is not able to be unpacked unter KDE.

It's no problem using Windows.

lucke · 2007-03-06 20:05:06

You mean that files inside an archive have garbled filenames and thus can't be unpacked?

(isn't Windows using cp encoding?)

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-06 20:34:53

lucke wrote:

You mean that files inside an archive have garbled filenames and thus can't be unpacked?

Geez, my bad English. You put it right.

isn't Windows using cp encoding?)

I cannot exactly tell, I am sorry.

lucke · 2007-03-06 20:38:33

If it doesn't work with Ark, try using unrar in the command line. I can't think of anything else.

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-06 21:31:45

unrar worked perfectly, so the problem lies with Ark and its encoding.

Master One · 2007-03-07 09:08:15

Ok, I thought this problem does not bother me, but now I am also annoyed by that rectangle character replacement. I just visited this wikipedia page, and it's giving me 6 rectangles in the first gray box on the right side, as well as 8 rectangles in the first paragraph of the main-content.

chaosgeisterchen, can you check please, if you have that page shown correctly? I only have Bitstream Vera installed, and I didn't want to mess around with fonts any more. If you have that page shown correctly, is it enough to just install DejaVu fonts, or do I have to change the fonts settings in KDE's control panel as well?

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-07 09:14:50

Sure, when I'm back home.

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-07 14:25:36

I get no squares at all. Did you set the encoding utf8, use DejaVu and set Arphic/Kochi as substitue?

Master One · 2007-03-07 15:51:23

Ok, it's working now. I installed ttf-arphic-ukai, ttf-arphic-uming & dejavu, changed the default font to dejavu, set utf8 as standardencoding, and in qtconfig both arphic as substitute for dejavu. I don't know, if all these steps are necessary, but the mentioned wikipedia page is now shown correctly.

BTW in qtconfig (and the KDE font-setting-menu in the control-center) the two arphic fonts are only shown as PLUni and PLUni, so something is still not right.

Master One · 2007-03-07 15:59:51

Have to revise my last statement: To have the mentioned wikipedia page shown correctly, those arphic fonts are not needed, so it either was the standardencoding set to "utf8" (instead of "use language specific encoding"), or the change from bitstream vera sans to dejavu.

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-07 18:46:06

It was a matter with the fonts. DejaVu actually supports a lot more characters, I have to admit.

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