[Evolution] [OT] chinese fonts and hex representation boxes

Not Zed notzed@ximian.com
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:54:52 +0800


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Fonts.

The glyph requested by gnome isn't available in the given font, so the X
server/font server creates a glyph containing the number of the missing
one.

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 01:55 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for asking here, but I figure you may know, since you work
> so closely with GNOME.
> 
> Chinese characters display as little 2-byte hexadecimal boxes, 
> but Japanese characters display properly (as do non-English western
> fonts).
> 
> Is this a locales problem or a fonts problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ron

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8">
  <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.5.3">
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Fonts.<BR>
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The glyph requested by gnome isn't available in the given font, so the X server/font server creates a glyph containing the number of the missing one.<BR>
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On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 01:55 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT>

<FONT COLOR="#000000">Sorry for asking here, but I figure you may know, since you work</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">so closely with GNOME.</FONT>

<FONT COLOR="#000000">Chinese characters display as little 2-byte hexadecimal boxes, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but Japanese characters display properly (as do non-English western</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fonts).</FONT>

<FONT COLOR="#000000">Is this a locales problem or a fonts problem?</FONT>

<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ron</FONT>
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