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Distribution: OpenSuse 10.2, Slackware 11, Solaris 10
Posts: 415
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Installing MS Arial Unicode Font
Hi all,
My KDE does not have Unicode support I think, in a thread someone told me to get a unicode, the most complete one is Arial Unicode Font from MS, I got it from my windows Folder, and installed it in KDE
Konqueror detected the font, but I still see boxes???
You'll have to set Konqueror to force that font. I know how in Mozilla but I'm not a Konqueror user, so you'll have to wait for a member that is, or just start looking.
We need to make sure the file contains\shows the encoding you need
- Do a "xfontsel"
- Go to "family" menu, choose "arial"
- Go to "encding" menu, see if your encoding is available
- Choose it, see if the lower line of font example shows the letters in your language.
BTW, what is the encoding you are trying to get? (You can give a Windows term. i.e. cp1251, or a name i.e.Canadian French)
Originally posted by irfanhab You are a genious! That solved my problem, finally I can enjoy unicode in Linux. Thanks Everyone!!
Thank you for the compliment, but I am not a genious. Just that I have my hard times learning howto get fonts to work with Slackware. Glad am able to help.
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