Heya. If no one here knows anything about this, does anyone know where else I might find some information? Is there a mailing list for xft or otherwise dealing with fonts in X? I've found no readme, faq or archived message with relative information anywhere. Panther On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:01 pm, Panther Wyvern stepped up to the podium, took a deep breath and intoned: > Hi. I recently updated to Xfree 4.3.0. Everything has gone smoothly but > for a strange font problem I've not found mention of anywhere. Truetype > fonts seem to be the problem. They all replace capital letters with odd > characters. For instance, Google's web site uses font family: Arial. When > I load that page, all the lower case letters are in uppercase and the > capital letters are changed so that Google becomes 'OOGLE, Search becomes > 3EARCH, Directory becomes $IRECTORY, News becomes .EWS and the like. > There's also an awful lot of spaces between some of the words. I've found > the same to be true in all KDE applications that can change fonts, Mozilla, > Opera and Open Office.org. > > Testing in a word processor shows the problem happens with Time New Roman, > Arial, Bookman L Ee (though not Bookman L), Century Schoolbook and Chancery > L Ee (though not Chancery L), among others. The test further shows that > when using the fonts that have the problem, typing a to z in lower case > shows all uppercase and typing A to Z in uppercase shows: > > !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789: > > As I pointed out previously, in some similar fonts (like Chancery L Ee and > Chancery L), it happens with one and not the other. > > I'm not sure what further information to give at this point that would be > relevant to my issue. > > I might add, maybe, that I'm using Linux on x86 architecture. I hope > someone can help me with this. > > Panther > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
