Hi,
I've just converted my email to Ximian Evolution from MS Outlook and I
have had trouble reading emails that should be readable under
iso-8859-6 (the unicode arabic fontset) and the windows-1256 (windows
arabic fontset).
Currently it seems even if I select one of the languages from the list
evolution gives, I still get the wrong fonts / display. For example,
greek does not display greek characters but some other font instead -
like it is trying to use the wrong font.
I upgraded Evolution to v1.4 and the same thing still happens.
I think this is to do with gnome and its character displaying and/or
fonts, does anyone have any idea what I can try next?
I have installed pretty much everything possible from my linux cd's so I
don't think it is a missing package (I'm using mandrake 9.1)
I have copied over all my truetype fonts from Windows\Fonts directory
and I can see them in the gnome font preferences dialog.
Arabic is displayed correctly in Mozilla, and also in galeon when I
select that encoding. Kmail is able to read the arabic email correctly
(but only in the view, and not in the list of email subject headings.
I have tried selecting UTF8 and several others on the list Evolution gives,
(in the preferences menu, under mail) however this list is not an exhaustive list of
fonts on my system, is there a way of updating this?
I think Evolution uses GTk2 but I don't know how to alter the fonts
Gnome uses, as I am a KDE user. I have tried extensive searching on the
net for language, character code, font, and a host of other keywords,
but nothing useful.. Searching Ximians support sources provides no help
either.
So basically the questions I would most appreciate:
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- Is there a way to make gnome select the appropriate font
automatically?
- Is there a way to make Ximian Evolution display international
characters correctly?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks
Ez
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