https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1567
[EMAIL PROTECTED] changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-20 16:23 -------
We already ship those fonts.
However, they are less complete than ClearlyU (which is not complete either, but
the most complete of bitmap fonts).
The problem is that gtk1 uses the old X11 font mechanism, which supposes a font
is always complete; that is, gtk1 is unable to choose the appropriate font
depending on what it wants to display; to avoid having blank squares instead of
letters, the biggest coverage font is set as the default one.
It cannot be easily fixed. And won't, for languages that don't yet use utf-8 as
the default.
You can however easily fix it:
copy /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8 to /etc/gtk/gtkrc.nl_NL.utf-8 (or whatever your
locale is. note that the 'utf-8' must be in lowercase (it is in uppercase in the
locale name)) and edit it to match your font taste (you can type in a terminal
the following command to see available fonts for utf-8 in gtk1 programs:
xlsfonts | grep iso10646-1
you can also copy /etc/gtk/gtkrc.iso-8859-15 as /etc/gtk/gtkrc.nl_NL.utf-8 and
change "iso8859-15" and "iso8859-1" with "iso10646-1" in the file, if you like
to keep the same fonts.
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
------- Reminder: -------
assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
status: RESOLVED
creation_date:
description:
- Set the system in UTF8 mode
(with localedrake)
- try to run any gtk1.2 application like: gimp, evolution, grip, screem,
gtoaster, gaim, gnucash, etc....
==> The font used by X is:
- very big, and very different from to non-UTF8 mode
- ugly
- non anti-aliased
The problem was exactly the same on 9.0.
I'm always running 9.0 in UTF8 now, and I had to change a bit some fonts, so I
will provide more information on how to fix that, if I recall what I did.
I think it's important because there are very few things to do to have a very
good UTF8 support and activate it by default (like in rh8.x).
