James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I need to know about the name of the font -- is it a Latin name or a CJK ideographic name and if a non-Latin character name (like your name) what encoding does the font use for its *name*. To be clear. "simsum" is in Latin characters but the example below is a Chinese name in ideographic characters.
The known bugs are with Type1 fonts not providing the family name in a way that Qt expected. So, this is probably not the problem.
So, I suspect that this is a related problem to a previous question. The previous question had a font name in GB2312. In UTF-8, the font name was ????? and this isn't showing up correctly here but I think that that is a font issue since it shows up correctly in the Mozilla spelling checker. That is the UTF-8 code in HEX is: e9 94 9f e6 96 a4 e6 8b b7. I am told that this translates to FangSong in Latin characters.
If you have such a font name, I do not know how Qt and KDE or FontConfig handle such a name and therefore asked about this on the development list.
The name is Latin name. For example, 'xlsfonts | grep simsun' shows: -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-gb2312.1980-0 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-gb2312.1980-0 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1983-0 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1983-0 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1990-0 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1990-0 -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r Furthermore, 'xdvi' can generate the additional fonts correctly, and some other KDE applications (so they use Qt) do display chacacters with font 'simsun'. Thank you very much.
From the information you provided, my best (educated, but still a) guess is that this is a font specific bug with that application, or it might be a general bug with CJK glyphs with that application.
Could you please try a different font and see it it works correctly with a different font.
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