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Cyrillic characters display as squares
Just installed Slackware 9.1. Everything else works great.
Some apps, however, display Cyrillic fonts as little squares or boxes with numerals inside: Kword Mozilla & Firefox Abiword Evolution Galeon Openoffice.org Kwrite, Kmail and Konqueror show them just fine. I specified the same fonts for Mozilla as I have for Konqueror and the desktop. No luck. I checked that both the cyrillic and TTF directories are listed in fc/config and XF86config. I can see that KDE and Gnome will display Cyrillic just fine in other applications, so I'm not eager to track down some Windows font files. But what's up with these specific applications? |
Hi!
i think you are russian... so i hope that this link can help you ;) po krajnei mere nadeius :D how-to(ru)Slackware (7,8,9.0) how-to(ru) Slackware 9.0 bye :) |
Spasibo. Ja sam amerikanyets, Vsio taki nevozmozhno chitat' pis'ma ot druzej. Vidny tol'ko malen'kie kvadraty.
Once I located a browser which would read the articles linked above, they provided some interesting information. But it still doesn't answer my question. Why will Konqueror, etc read Cyrillic but the GTK-based stuff won't? Is it because they use different software to parse the characters? I'll accept if Slackware 9.1 base install contains some shortcoming which didn't do something or other. Just curious. I've seen similar problems trying to browse non-Latin stuff like Japanese. |
all ok
Hi :)
to can display some cyrillic characters, you must do: download 3 packages: cabextract-0.6-i386-1dl.tgz freetype2-2.1.4rc2-i386-4dl.tgz webfonts-1.0-i386-3dl.tgz and install pkg (# installpkg "pkg".tgz) :D after: # rm /usr/share/fonts.old/fonts.cache-1 # fc-cache :rolleyes: bye ;) |
Пишу в Firefox, значит все в порядке. Спасибо!
(The packages & fonts helped.) Still -- why, if I specify the same fonts in Konqueror and Mozilla, should one display Cyrillic and the other does not? |
Usually this problem is caused by there not being appropriate True Type fonts available for the text you are trying to display. Some programs are using fontconfig/XFT (Mozilla, Gnome, Gimp 1.3, etc.) while others are not (Konqueror, Gimp 1.2, etc.). The programs that use XFT are often set to use only True Type fonts, and there are no Cyrillic True Type fonts included with Slackware to begin with.
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I have same problem with cyrillic fonts in Open Office they are like little square. Do you solve your problem tell me how?
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Re: all ok
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This fixed the cyrillic probs on my 9.1 too :D The above links didn't work, but for anyone else interested, I found the files here: webfonts-1.0-noarch-2dl.tgz freetype-2.1.8-i486-1efn.tgz cabextract-1.0-i686-1rmx.tgz |
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Ok, my cyrillic also doesn't work. Not in firefox not in anything else. The above links are down... Any other ideas?
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Here are the latest packages mentioned on this thread, I'm not sure if they'll work, but well, you could try:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/d...l.tgz?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/d...l.tgz?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/d...l.tgz?download |
The relevant link is still valid: The link for grepping the files from Dropline Gnome.
I used this approach for getting Cyrillics to work on my Slackbox. |
It's working now! I used the links by gbonvehi, installed and it all worked out itself, like magic :)!
Thanks! |
I can't do
# rm /usr/share/fonts.old/fonts.cache-1 # fc-cache explain please.. ..or it's time to delete my /dev/hands |
ok. I can do it already... simply brains work slowly under the bear..ufff... that's ok now. thanks to everyone!!! =)
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