Sjoerd Hiemstra schrieb:
Hi Sjoerd ,
Jethro Cramp:
Juergen Braukmann:
I think the question is "how can I view a font (file) to see the characters of that very font?"
Sorry no idea. But would be a useful tool.
xfd -fn fontname where fontname is one of the fonts shown by xlsfonts
Example: xfd -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-15 shows the characters of this font, including the euro symbol!
Whow! That tip made it immedeately into my extended memory (the small hintbook that sits besides my machine). That's the thing I realy like about linux/unix: If there is a problem there is a solution, because so. had thought of that before and cured it. ;-) In fact, that hint is so good, it could go in Togans FAQ. Are you listening Togan?
Another tool is KCharSelect (K > Utilities > Character Selector)
Well,I needed some time to find it in my german KDE-Menue (that I just convinced to be german again ;-)) but then I failed. It looks like that I see only iso8859-1, for whatever reason. And I neither see what char set (iso-wise) it is, to give me more hints. Btw. back to netscape, I can't see the Euro symbol while writing mail (also I can send it). My netscape config seems to be screwed up somehow, also it is set to (display) 8859-15 it defaults to 8859-1 after restart, also 8859-15 is still marked. resetting that setting cures things. Time to test with my other user profile. ;-) Juergen
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