From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 11:14:52 GMT
> Hi Andrew,
Hi Daeron.
> You responded to the below bug issue, the chap had
> been saying he
> couldn't use the correct part of the character set
> because the Font Dialog
> Encoding option was displaying 'placeholder' as he
> wrote it.
> It actually displays, "Placeholder" as it displays
> in 0.99.2
> Do you know if this is related to
> 1) some font directory setup issue
> 2) some undocumented/or documented manual setup
> issue
> ( I found an Israeli site talking about having to
> edit the config file
> and insert in a "LANG: specification )
> or 3) some code that was not working properly
> Thanx for any info
> :)
Sorry to say but I'm not very knowlegeable of the *nix
stuff and also I'm currently backpacking in Morocco so
have no real chance to help you here but I'm
forwarding
this response to the Abiword dev list in the hope that
the guys there are more equipped to help. Good luck.
Andrew Dunbar.
========================================================
> --- Dom Lachowicz <dominicl@seas.upenn.edu> wrote: >
>
> I'm forwarding this to abiword-dev for more input on
>
> > the matter. Hopefully
> > someone will be able to help.
> >
> > Dom
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Senki Alfonz
> > <boke@freemail.hu> -----
> > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:10:22 +0200
> > From: Senki Alfonz <boke@freemail.hu>
> > Reply-To: boke@freemail.hu
> > Subject: Font encoding menu point does not work
> > To: Dom Lachowicz <dominicl@seas.upenn.edu>
> >
> > I am using Abiword 0.9.2 under Linux Mandrake
> 8.0.
> > As I am
> > Hungarian, I need code page iso8859-2 for
> > double-accented 'O' and
> > 'U', so called hungarumlaut. I cannot find a way
> to
> > achieve this.
> > The 'encoding' point of the font menu cannot be
> > moved from
> > 'placeholder' (what is this, anyway?). If I
> change
> > the iso8859-1
> > string to iso8859-2 in the 'fonts.dir' and
> > 'fonts.scale' files,
> > the fonts appear right on the screen, but print
> > totally different
> > letters.
> > I think this problem concerns everybody in
> Central
> > Europe.
> >
> > Anybody, help me please!
> >
> > Istvan
>
> This sounds to me like a Linux/X font issue. I
> understand that "non-western" fonts need to be
> created
> but I don't know the exact procedure. It also sounds
>
> like the substitute character, the degree symbol, is
>
> playing a part. This is the code which puts a
> character in the place of a) characters missing from
>
> your font and b) zero-width characters. So getting
> the correct 8859-2 font created should fix your
> problem
> unless of course it doesn't create the "double
> acute"
> characters needed in which case you will need to get
>
> better fonts.
>
> I hope somebody familiar with central European fonts
>
> on Linux/X can give you more specific help. I think
> this
> problem does not exist on the Windows version.
>
> Andrew Dunbar.
>
>
>
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