On 11/11/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/11/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > In an regular email I get from Apple a number of characters show up > > as little boxes that say "00 93" and "00 94". In the following quote > > the quotes at 'launching' and the quote at the end are bad until I > > paste it into GMail which seems to take care of it. The two quotes at > > the beginning are fine. > > > > In "Hands-on with Aperture," David Schloss (pdnonline) offers a fairly > > detailed overview of the application Apple expects to ship later this > > month. Aperture, says Schloss, is "launching out of the gate with more > > features and functionality than anything else to date. With Aperture, > > Apple has the ability to bring a whole new level of sophistication to > > the post-production market place." > > > > 1) This is a font issue, right? > > > > 2) If so, how do I determine what Apple's HTML is looking for? > > > > 3) Generally, what fonts do folks load to get the best results on this > stuff? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > I ran into this same issue only for me it was with Asian characters. I > re-compiled X with the cjk (multi-byte characters) use flag and everything > works perfectly now. I would try that first (even though re-compiling X is a > long painful process). > > -Mike
Hi Mike, Tried it but no success. I'm still getting the little 2 character things. Here's how I did the xorg emerge. I wonder about the font server? Did you emerge with that option? lightning ~ # emerge -pv xorg-x11 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 (-3dfx) (-3dnow) +bitmap-fonts +cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal (-mmx) +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk (-sse) -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB lightning ~ # Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
