[bt-devel] again: Font problems

Joachim Ansorg bt-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 1 May 2001 17:05:08 +0200


Hi Martin!

I hope I understood the problem with the fonts correctly.

> > Qt does refuse now to use fonts which have a wrong charset set, but this
> > was possible in earlier releases.
> > It works everywhere else because the others do not use greek or hebrew
> > fonts.

> What does that mean that a font has a wrong charset set? I don't know much
> about these kind of issues. Could you explain more detailed?
> If it's a problem with the fonts then we'll just correct it and give the
> updated fonts into the repository. Is that possible?

A normal greek font should have the charset iso8859-7, which is the charset 
for Greece.
But all the fonts we have were made using the charset iso8859-1, which is our 
latin1. The greek characters are mapped to characters of latin1 (pressing a 
gives alpha, b->beta etc.).

I'm not usre why changing the charset in the config files gives greek again, 
but obviously this is a problem with the fonts. They use wrong charsets 
(should be 8859-7), so this is probably the reason.


Joachim