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Freaky T

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Registered: 2004-09-16

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International Font Problem with KDE Apps

International charactars only show up as squares in my KDE apps, while working fine in Gnome.

(see this screenshot for an example)

A possible clue is the way many KDE apps when run from the terminal tend to report "kcontrol: WARNING: KLocale: trying to look up "" in catalog. Fix the program" occasionally.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: International Font Problem with KDE Apps

International charactars only show up as squares in my KDE apps, while working fine in Gnome.

(see this screenshot for an example)

A possible clue is the way many KDE apps when run from the terminal tend to report "kcontrol: WARNING: KLocale: trying to look up "" in catalog. Fix the program" occasionally.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

I use KDE and Amarok has a problem to show correct iso-8859-2 fonts. I don't know when this happened.

rdoggsv

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Registered: 2005-06-24

Posts: 79

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Re: International Font Problem with KDE Apps

hey did u guys fixed this problem ???? im having this one trying to use á é í ó ú ñ in kde , those fonts shows up as squares ???

RaLX

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Registered: 2005-10-17

Posts: 54

Re: International Font Problem with KDE Apps

hey did u guys fixed this problem ???? im having this one trying to use á é í ó ú ñ in kde , those fonts shows up as squares ???

The only partial solution that I've found to this same problem was to change my LOCALE in rc.conf from UTF-8 to ISO8859-1, but now there are console apps that show bad chars with á é í, etc...

Any other ideas?

emma

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Registered: 2006-02-19

Posts: 64

Re: International Font Problem with KDE Apps

What fonts do you guys have installed? Just give a list of /usr/share/fonts or whatnot.

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: International Font Problem with KDE Apps

What fonts do you guys have installed? Just give a list of /usr/share/fonts or whatnot.

FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"    

Fonts which I have in the path I have installed.
My locale.gen is:

en_US.UTF8 UTF8
#  de_DE ISO-8859-1
#  de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
#
#  The locale-gen command will generate all the locales, 
#  placing them in /usr/lib/locale.

# locale -a 
 en_US.UTF8 

..and I have yes-bitmats

RaLX

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Registered: 2005-10-17

Posts: 54

Re: International Font Problem with KDE Apps

pacman -Qs fonts return:
local/fontsproto 2.0.2-1
local/gsfonts 8.11-3
local/t1lib 5.1.0-2
local/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-3
local/ttf-cheapskate 2.0-4
local/ttf-ms-fonts 1.3-7
local/xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.0-2
local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.1-1
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.0-1
local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-2

locale -a return:
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
es_VE
es_VE.iso88591
es_VE.utf8

I'm not sure what are doing C and POSIX there¿?