Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (33 mails)

[ugroh@xxxxxxxxxxx (U. Groh)]

Hallo, I did as described below but the situation is as before: On seme web 
pages I can't see the "Umlaute" but just nothing or funny squres. I also 
created from scratch a new user and tried out there: Same behaviour. Maybe a 
I have to chance something globally?

Ulrich Groh

> When you start your konqueror and ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc
> does not exist, open the font setting dialog of konqueror and
> you will see that the Japanese fonts "Kochi Gothic" and
> "Kochi Mincho" are set. *But*, for some strange reason these settings
> are not yet active, other fonts are used, which work. As soon
> as you change *anything* in the setup and click on "Apply",
> the settings (including these font settings) become active
> and the Umlauts disappear because these Japanese fonts unfortunately
> don't have Umlauts and Qt apparently doesn't realize that these
> fonts are unsuitable for Latin1 text (Qt bug).
>
> Now these settings are also saved to ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc,
> which means that you have the same broken settings when
> you start konqueror again.
>
> Solution:
> =========
>
> Set up other fonts in the konqueror settings, for example "Nimbus Sans
> L" or "Luxi Sans" instead of "Kochi Gothic" and "Nimbus Roman No9 L"
> or "Luxi Serif" instead of "Kochi Mincho".  Then Qt will use these
> fonts for Latin1. Qt will correctly recognize that these fonts are not
> suitable for Japanese and will fallback to other fonts for Japanese
> according to the rules in /etc/X11/qtrc or ~/.qt/qtrc respectively. In
> the SuSE default settings in /etc/X11/qtrc, "Kochi Mincho" is the
> first replacement for the serif European fonts and "Kochi Gothic" is
> the first replacement for the sans-serif European fonts mentioned
> above. Therefore, "Kochi Gothic" and "Kochi Mincho" will still be used
> for Japanese and you will see both German and Japanese correctly.
>
> Some more explanation about the Qt font substitutions is here:
>
> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/kde-font-setup.html
>
> --
> Mike FABIAN   <mfabian@xxxxxxx>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
> 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。