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Date:      Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:48:14 -0500
From:      Mitja <lumiwa@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com>, Ezequiel Aguerre <ezeaguerrelistas@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Konqueror UNICODE fonts
Message-ID:  <200807061648.15161.lumiwa@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200807061423.34177.ghirai@ghirai.com>
References:  <200807051939.57844.ghirai@ghirai.com> <8e60f2200807060308j3612c0e9yb90438986f008fa0@mail.gmail.com> <200807061423.34177.ghirai@ghirai.com>

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On Sunday 06 July 2008 06:23:34 Ghirai wrote:
> 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.

If you are going, for example, to the:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador

Are there squares too, please?

I have to used DejaVu fonts and than changed to Liberation fonts and I had and 
I have a problem as you had still.

Thank you.
-- 
There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he
has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
		-- W.C. Fields



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