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FS#1711 - bad national fonts when kde-i18n-pl installed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tomasz Bakiera (kog) - Monday, 01 November 2004, 09:03 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 01 November 2004, 13:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When I installed kde-i18n-pl most of polish national characters are shown as squares. Looks like default Bitestream Vera doesn't have ISO-8859-2 coding. I fix this problem by instaling dejavu fonts.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Saturday, 19 February 2005, 14:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  added a section in kde wiki which explains the problem
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 01 November 2004, 09:26 GMT
i guess this cannot be fixed
because you can set only one default
can you give me an expample of a polish character?
thanks
Comment by Tomasz Bakiera (kog) - Monday, 01 November 2004, 09:49 GMT
What do you mean "example of polish character" ?
ASCII code ?
http://www.ogonki.agh.edu.pl/plchars.html
At the top of the page you got ISO-8859-2,
rest are unused or #%$! M$ charcter.

Polish letters are: a e c n o l s z with additionals (dots, etc.)

Does this information help ?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 02 November 2004, 08:03 GMT
thanks i work on that
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 02 November 2004, 11:10 GMT
ok now i made a pkguild for dejavu
but the font has a spacing that is not normal
here are some screenies from openoffice
and in kde the lines get bigger and this looks not very good
perhaps you have some ideas on that
http://www.justdreams.de/archlinux/images/screenies/deja-ttf-oo.png
http://www.justdreams.de/archlinux/images/screenies/deja-ttf-aw.png

as workaround i would suggest, you should use helvetica which is shipped with xorg by default.
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Tuesday, 02 November 2004, 11:17 GMT
Further explainations on this: The order goes like this: vera sans, vera serif, dejavu sans, dejavu serif
The spacing differences can be expained, cuz Abiword (see titlebar for what is what) uses fontconfig for rendering and openoffice uses fonts.dir and fonts.scale for hinting (read:striktly x-based)

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