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Date:      Mon, 19 May 2003 15:37:29 -0500
From:      Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        cwweng@ails1.csie.ntu.edu.tw
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Font problems with gnome 2.3.1
Message-ID:  <oprpfswrnn8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030519193132.GA44250@ails5.csie.ntu.edu.tw>
References:  <20030519193132.GA44250@ails5.csie.ntu.edu.tw>

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On Tue, 20 May 2003 03:31:32 +0800, Isaac Weng 
<cwweng@ails1.csie.ntu.edu.tw> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I updated to gnome 2.3.1 yesterday, everything looks fine except the 
> font.

Can you try to run 'fc-cache -f -v' to see if it will solve your problem?

Cheers,
Mezz

> I set my LANG to zh_TW.Big which allows me to see Chinese characters.
> After upgrading to 2.3.1, there're some problems.
>
> I can still see Chinese characters most of the time, but when I wanna
> set the fonts, I got the following errors.
>
>
> (gnome-font-properties:44246): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF- 
> 8 to 'Big5': Incorrect byte sequence during converting input data (This 
> message is manually translated from Chinese)
>
> ** (gnome-font-properties:44246): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed 
> to pango_layout_set_text():
>
> ** (gnome-font-properties:44246): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed 
> to pango_layout_set_text()
>
>
> I thought that might be the reason why I can't see Chinese on most gnome
> apps, but it's fine with other apps such as galen2.
>
> It worked fine with gnome 2.2 using the same setting, and I also run
> fc-cache but it doesn't help.
>
> I don't know if I describe it well so I'll attach a screenshot.
> See the difference of the place containing Chinese characters between
> these two apps and another unrecognized error message.
>
> And also I can't compile gnomeapplet2 because it complained the absence 
> of
> libatk-1.0.so.200 during installation, but the library installed by atk- 
> 1.3.2
> is libatk-1.0.so.300.
>
> Sorry for the bothering.
>
> Regards,
>


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