Re: Trouble with fonts

[George 'Nephrite' Potapov]

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Fred Kiefer wrote:

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Thanks a lot your advice really helped. Sorry for answering that late I
was unable to check my email for awhile.

FK> Looks like this problem is becoming a FAQ. The short answer is that your
FK> font installation does not map to your font usage. And the long answer
FK> is what I posted some weeks ago to a similar question:
FK> 
FK>  > The problem you are getting come from the fact that the xgps backend
FK>  >  (when not using Xft) will only use one fixed X font for a given
FK>  > font name. If the font "helvetica" is used inside of GNUstep the
FK>  > one selected X font, in your case
FK>  > "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" is used. So
FK>  > only characters (or glyphs) that are available in that font can be
FK>  > displayed. The selection which font name to use happens inside the
FK>  > font_cacher and is more or less at random (the order fonts are
FK>  > listed by the X system).
FK>  >
FK>  > You can influence the fonts that are available by setting:
FK>  >
FK>  > defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontMask "*iso8859-13*"
FK>  >
FK>  > and recreating your font cache (by deleting the old one). As has
FK>  > been noted by Adam, this is not the best way to go and in the long
FK>  > run GNUstep will have to be able to provide different fonts with
FK>  > the same encoding. Font sets may be a way to go here.

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