Courier [Adobe] that comes with XFree86 is a bit mapped font. Try IBM Courier or BitStream Courier which are scalable Type1 fonts.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Before those upgrades, I could see the EURO sign e.g. when I type here in kmail, but now I don't (do you see something if I type 3 times EURO "€€€" ?).
Yes, three EuroSigns.
Did the EuroSigns in my e-mail show up OK on your system?
Huch - I now see the EUR signs in the mail composer as I reply to your mail now ...
I found out, that this is due to the font _size_ I selected. If I select Courier [Adobe] 10 points, I see the EUR sign. If I select 9 points, I don't. Any ideas how this can be?
Hmmm ... I think I do too much playing with the font stuff.I don't know what would cause that unless the font actually has the blank character for that character code.
I have again upgraded to Xfree86-4.4 RC2, and have now only the Xfree fonts installed. Now I don't have the Courier [Urw] font anymore, but only
Courier from Adobe Bitstream or Cronyx.
I just have some empty space). I use the font Courier [Urw], which definitely has the EURO sign in Table 32 using kcharselect as you said - but: Using kcharselect shows me the EURO sign in the table-view, but if I click on the EURO sign, I get _nothing_ in the Textfield below, where normally all the chars clicked on are pasted.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong ?
This is seriously weird. :-|
You are having a font encoding problem (at least 90% sure but you never know for sure).
But, you would normally get a small square box rather than a blank when the glyph isn't in the font.
Yes, sometimes I see the square, but sometimes not (Luxi Sans for example does not) ... :-(
Have you tried other fonts to see if you have the same problem? That is probably what I would try next.
As I said, some KDE applications let you set the encoding. Did you try this in KMail?
View => Set Encoding
Yes. Trying iso8859-15 or utf8 in this mail gives me the same result - no EUR sign.
Thinking about the _size_ behaviour described above, it seems that Qt selects different fonts e.g. when the selected size is not natively (as bitmapped font) available. Question is: what does it select then, and - is this a Qt bug?
Qt has a font selection algorithm that scores the fonts and is supposed to select the best substitution. If that fails, it will select the default font set in: "qtconfig" and the default there is Helvetica.
When I run qtconfig and try the same font with different sizes, I also have this problem - sometimes I see the EUR sometimes not, e.g.:
Courier [Adobe], Normal
6,7,9,11 don't show EUR
8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,36,48,72 are OK
As I said above, try the two Type1 Courier fonts that come with XFree86.
I note that I have also had problems with Qt and Courier. I seems to get confused about which one to use.
-- JRT
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