No Cyrillic symbols in KDE and Gnome Slackware 10
Hello,
I have a problem. I can't see cyrillic text in any application! In KDE 3.2.3 cyrillic symbols appear like boxes. In GNOME 2.6 a cyrillic symbol appears as two rectangles one upon another with numbers inside them?! What should I do to see cyrillic texts and symbols!? Please help guys. |
Install the correct font and if necessary tell your apps where to find it.
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Thanks, but which is the correct font? :( would the fonts from winxp work?
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Why don't you try the cyrillic font packet from the x folder of the slackware distribution?
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I did, I installed them when I installed slackware, I tried reinstalling them but still nothing happened :(
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Use forume search more often.
There were a shitload of posts about this issue. Bellow is one of them. Report Quote:
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Thanks I'll try it. I did search for similar threads in the forum but I didn't find something like this. Hope it works.
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But will the KOI8-R encoding work? In my country windows-1251 is a standard, and iso8859-5 is almost a standard too, but i've never seen KOI8-R, anyway, who cares if it works. :)
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Well, unfortunately this didn't help
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You need the following packages:
cabextract-0.6 webfonts-1.0-i386-3d That's it, I think. |
Could you give me a link to these packages? I found the first one, but it is a archiving utility I think, for extracting windows .cab files. Why do I need it? About the other package I didn't find anything?!
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plm, what user are you running as? root? some other? Slack is not the best cyrillic platform - strange things happen.
I had cyrillic show up as squares with numbers in them in KDE and pretty much everywhere while I ran as root (setting up, tweaking period) Then, I created a normal user and for that user, cyrillic works no problem. Cyrillic support has been such a painful issue on many linux distros. I am hesitant to even start digging what actually happen. But... some wounds are made to be reopen... Tasks: 1. Can you please post "Module" and "Files" section of your /etv/X11/xorg.conf 2. Tell me if you use default/root. Did you try cyrillic as new/normal user? |
Install this pkg before you install webfonts:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/d...l.tgz?download webfonts: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/d...l.tgz?download This should be all you have to do. I did the default Slack 10 install (by just installing everything) I did no modifications to my kernel, and it worked for me. |
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Just do a "locate freetype" - assuming you have done "updatedb" before. Among other things you'll see /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so I am certain it is a settings issue. The webfonts wouldn't hurt though. Also, plz, post xorg.conf sections I requested above so we can check them and go further. |
Hey suslik,
Just thought I'd let you know I have the same issues, both as root and user, and that that solution posted above does indeed not work. Note that I didn't install the KDEI packages, so maybe plm didn't either and that's the problem. Or would that be unimportant? -zsejk Code:
Section "Module" Code:
Section "Files" |
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