James Richard Tyrer
Jarl Friis wrote:
Hi. I am new to this list.
I'm having font problems. Runing SuSE 8.1 with KDE3 I experience the
following font-problem. I launched Konqueror and went to google, and see that The fonts now
used to render google-buttons (and other text) does not render the danish characters "æ", "ø", "å". At first glance I worked around it and uninstalled some non8859-1
fonts, but I consider this to be a hack. I note that whatever I do in Konquerors appearance settings the
font-selection does not change the appearance of google (in danish). I guess that is caused by google requesting a specific font family
(arial) hence the font-options (including encoding) under Konquerors appearance settings are ignored (or overruled by something).
The source code for the page says: ISO 8859-1 and: "arial,sans-serif" so there shouldn't be a problem.
What can I do?
Is this a bug?
I think that this is a font problem. But, I am not sure what it is.
I certainly was. I removed the kochi-gothic and kochi-'something-else' fonts that were only version 0.2 software.
I tried Google in Dansk and the buttons and the line under them are correct AFAIK (since I don't speak Dansk and my Deutsch is not very good).
Søg på nettetSøg sider på Dansk
This looks OK on Mozilla as well. The "a"s have a little circle over them and the: "o"s have the diagonal line through them. I didn't see the Latin a+e anywhere.
Thank you very much for trying it out, and helping me. The a+e characters can be found in "Præferencer" and "Sprogværktøjer",i.e. "preferences" and "language tools"
However, I do have the actual Arial True Type font installed.
So do/did I. I just still haven't figured the pipeline from a HTML/CSS <style> specification saying "{font-family:arial,sans-serif;}" ends up being a fully qualified X-font name. Any documentations you can direct me to as regarding this font name resolving mechanism, involving KDE, Qt, X.
Can you open Kcharselect and see if the "sans-serif" font that you are using in Konqueror for web browsing has the characters which you need.
You probably mean "kcharselect" which seems like a goo app. Now the behaviour of arial is as expected (respecting non-ascii characters) I will try to reinstall kochi-fonts, see if behaviour changes.
Also make sure that you have chosen ISO 8859-1 or ISO 8859-15 as your default font.
Well "use the encoding of the language" should suffice, right?
Does it fix the problem to set the encoding: "View => Set Encoding"?
No it didn't change anything.
Also note FYI that if Qt can't find the correct font, it will look through everything else and failing that, default to Helvetica and if it can't find Helvetica, I think that it will just choose the first one it finds. :-(.
Thanks, any URL describing this in detail. Well the problem is no solved by uninstalling some japanese beta-fonts, yet I can't see why this should change the behaviour of non japanese text. Jarl