From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 09:14:30 EDT
You'd be very much advised to download xft/fontconfig from
fontconfig.com and configure Abi with --enable-xft.
Dom
On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 08:49 AM, Raphael Finkel wrote:
> A few weeks ago I got a copy of Abiword source and compiled it under
> Linux.
> With some fiddling, I got a Unicode font (MS Arial) to show me
> Hebrew/Yiddish
> characters acceptably. Then last week I used CVS to update the copy,
> and now
> everything I type in or open in Hebrew/Yiddish is wrong. My setup:
>
> LANG=he_IL.utf-8; export LANG
>
> I have a utf-8 subdirectory of AbiSuite/fonts, in which:
> * I have a copy of arial.ttf that I call arigl.ttf just to
> disambiguate.
> * fonts.scale has a line:
> arigl.ttf -monotype-Arigl-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
> * fonts.dir is properly built from fonts.scale (looks identical)
> * arigl.t42 and arigl.u2g have been built; both appear to
> include codes for Hebrew/Yiddish. (Actually, these are symlinks to
> arial.t42 and arial.u2g.)
>
> When I start AbiWord, it offers me arigl as one of the fonts it knows
> about. So AbiWord is finding the fonts/utf-8 subdirectory. If my
> fonts.scale
> only includes the iso10646-1 line, I get no characters at all for
> Hebrew/Yiddish in the Arigl font. If I add an iso8859-1 line, AbiWord
> generates what looks like Latin-1 128-255 characters on the screen
> instead of
> Hebrew/Yiddish. If I change that to iso8859-8, then I get some
> Hebrew/Yiddish
> characters, but they are all wrong. It looks like the multi-byte utf8
> codes
> are not being fed to the font displayer properly. They are being
> treated as
> multiple independent bytes.
>
> Raphael Finkel
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