Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-08-18 22:31:45, schrieb Arthur Marsh: Thanks, installing xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and xfonts-75dpi-transcoded and running fc-cache -v You do not need this, since the packages do it automaticaly while installing. I've had a few cases where fc-cache didn't g

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-24 Thread Luis Hidalgo
(Sorry Michelle) >From Willie Wonka:>I'll wager a guess and say your FONT or LOCALE are messed up -- pertaining to>UTF-8 and default Languages / Keymap codes you have installed...etc>I think those 'numbers' instead of fonts is/are the UTF-8 representation in >code of wghat the font should be (mappe

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-18 22:31:45, schrieb Arthur Marsh: > Thanks, installing > > xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and > xfonts-75dpi-transcoded > > and running > > fc-cache -v You do not need this, since the packages do it automaticaly while installing. > fixed the problem I had with xmms not displaying accen

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-21 Thread George Borisov
Hello, I am having a similar problem with fonts on one of my Debian PCs. One PC is able to display Chinese characters in Firefox, the other one displays boxes with numbers in them instead. Both machines run Sid, the one that doesn't work is running a much older install (about 2 years older than

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Michelle Konzack wrote: ... I run Etch with the recent updates on an Acer Aspire Laptop. But since several weeks I have a font problem under X(org). The "normal" letters all look good, but instead of special letters like "öäü..." I see just white Boxes with a hexadezimal(?)-code inside. Not alw

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-02 01:09:54, schrieb Kristian Lampen: > Maybe this question is asked already several times, but I did not found > the answer in the Net right now. Because sometimes late at night you > have no time to crawl all over the internet to get it work, I ask this > question again! > > I run

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-07-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: ... I solved the problem by installing extra fonts; I cannot remember exactly which fonts I installed but from memory (and synaptic ;-)) I installed the following packages (the first being the most important one I think): ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-arabeyes ttf-junicode ttf-

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-07-02 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 01:09 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: > I run Etch with the recent updates on an Acer Aspire Laptop. But since > several weeks I have a font problem under X(org). The "normal" letters > all look good, but instead of special letters like "öäü..." I see just > white Boxes with

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-07-02 Thread Mumia W.
Kristian Lampen wrote: Maybe this question is asked already several times, but I did not found the answer in the Net right now. Because sometimes late at night you have no time to crawl all over the internet to get it work, I ask this question again! I run Etch with the recent updates on an Acer