Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-20 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 20/06/11 09:04, Mathew Brown wrote: By the way Tony, even a normal font such as Deja Sans Mono displays fine when you move the cursor over it. It's once it loses focus (by you Alt-Tabing to a new window) or by scrolling to the bottom of the screen so that the text is no longer visible that th

Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-20 Thread Mathew Brown
By the way Tony, even a normal font such as Deja Sans Mono displays fine when you move the cursor over it. It's once it loses focus (by you Alt-Tabing to a new window) or by scrolling to the bottom of the screen so that the text is no longer visible that the text becomes garbled. And as I said ea

Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-18 Thread Mathew Brown
I'm not sure if you read my 2nd reply. So here it is again: I take that back. Even Courier New didn't display the Arabic properly for all scenarios. By the way, I'm pretty sure that this is a Vim issue, not a GTK issue because I tried some of the exact same fonts on gedit and they showed the Ar

Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-18 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 18/06/11 09:59, Mathew Brown wrote: Hi Tony, On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:11 +0200, "Tony Mechelynck" wrote: [...] When viewing pointed Arabic text in GTK2 gvim, I don't always see it displayed correctly; moving the cursor over the text may correct the error. This is the exact issue that I

Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-18 Thread Mathew Brown
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:59 -0700, "Mathew Brown" wrote: > Hi Tony, > > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:11 +0200, "Tony Mechelynck" > wrote: > > On 17/06/11 22:02, Mathew Brown wrote: > > > Hi Tony, > > > > > >Thanks for your reply. To make sure that I'm using the exact same > > >fonts, I copied t

Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-18 Thread Mathew Brown
Hi Tony, On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:11 +0200, "Tony Mechelynck" wrote: > On 17/06/11 22:02, Mathew Brown wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > > >Thanks for your reply. To make sure that I'm using the exact same > >fonts, I copied the ttf fonts used by Windows and replaced the ones on > >Linux and the

Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-18 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 17/06/11 22:02, Mathew Brown wrote: Hi Tony, Thanks for your reply. To make sure that I'm using the exact same fonts, I copied the ttf fonts used by Windows and replaced the ones on Linux and then proceeded with running fc-cache. I'm still running into the same problem. So why

Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-17 Thread Mathew Brown
Hi Tony, Thanks for your reply. To make sure that I'm using the exact same fonts, I copied the ttf fonts used by Windows and replaced the ones on Linux and then proceeded with running fc-cache. I'm still running into the same problem. So why is it still working on Windows and not on L

Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-17 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 17/06/11 10:45, Mathew Brown wrote: Hi, I ran into a problem displaying Arabic fonts with tashkeel (an example is shown here next to "Google Labs" - http://tashkeel.googlelabs.com/). The font that I am currently using is Deja Vu Sans Mono. I am using the same setup on both Windo

Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

2011-06-17 Thread Mathew Brown
Hi, I ran into a problem displaying Arabic fonts with tashkeel (an example is shown here next to "Google Labs" - http://tashkeel.googlelabs.com/). The font that I am currently using is Deja Vu Sans Mono. I am using the same setup on both Windows and Linux. My guifonts line for Windows