Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:23:34 +0300 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: "Ezequiel Aguerre" <ezeaguerrelistas@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Konqueror UNICODE fonts Message-ID: <200807061423.34177.ghirai@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <8e60f2200807060308j3612c0e9yb90438986f008fa0@mail.gmail.com> References: <200807051939.57844.ghirai@ghirai.com> <8e60f2200807060308j3612c0e9yb90438986f008fa0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 06 July 2008 13:08:55 Ezequiel Aguerre wrote: > Hi, > 1. Make sure you have the proper fonts :P > 2. Choose a generic font name in konqueror config, something like "Sans" > and "Monospace" instead of (for example) "Bitstream Vera Sans" and > "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono". > 3. Make sure you have configured "fontconfig" so that it makes the proper > replace from "Sans" -> "Your preferred font" and so on. > > At least I had that problem until I did this. > The problem seems to be with font substitution. Say for example you are > using some of the "DejaVu" fonts and you want to see a page with some > strange character wich is not in that font; that character should be taken > from another font, however Konqueror doesn't get it quite right :P > > Bye!! > > 2008/7/5 Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com>: > > Hello list. > > > > I'm running KDE 3.5.8 from ports. > > > > Konqueror doesn't seem to want to display unicode fonts properly; i get > > boxes > > instead, even though i set the encoding to UTF-8. > > > > The same seem to be with text editors and such. > > > > Any indeas? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Ghirai. Alright, i installed dejavu fonts from ports, added the path to xorg.conf, and told KDE and Konqueror to use the DejaVu fonts. Everything works. -- Regards, Ghirai.
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