Konqueror UNICODE fonts

[Ghirai]

On Sunday 06 July 2008 13:08:55 Ezequiel Aguerre wrote:
> Hi,
> 1. Make sure you have the proper fonts :P
> 2. Choose a generic font name in konqueror config, something like "Sans"
> and "Monospace" instead of (for example) "Bitstream Vera Sans" and
> "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono".
> 3. Make sure you have configured "fontconfig" so that it makes the proper
> replace from "Sans" -> "Your preferred font" and so on.
>
> At least I had that problem until I did this.
> The problem seems to be with font substitution. Say for example you are
> using some of the "DejaVu" fonts and you want to see a page with some
> strange character wich is not in that font; that character should be taken
> from another font, however Konqueror doesn't get it quite right :P
>
> Bye!!
>
> 2008/7/5 Ghirai <ghirai at ghirai.com>:
> > Hello list.
> >
> > I'm running KDE 3.5.8 from ports.
> >
> > Konqueror doesn't seem to want to display unicode fonts properly; i get
> > boxes
> > instead, even though i set the encoding to UTF-8.
> >
> > The same seem to be with text editors and such.
> >
> > Any indeas?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Ghirai.

Alright, i installed dejavu fonts from ports, added the path to xorg.conf, and
told KDE and Konqueror to use the DejaVu fonts.

Everything works.

-- 
Regards,
Ghirai.