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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:53:11PM +0800, sqweek wrote:
> On 11/1/06, B. A. S. <silverdrop9 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am using the xorg modular mentioned on the wiki and msttf.  For some 
> > reason
> > many characters do not show correctly (such as quotation marks that 
> > surround a
> > sentence...the beginning and end quotes and plus signs as well.)  I feel 
> > I am missing
> > something here or perhaps compiled some stray package with an option or 
> > lack
> > thereof that I should look into.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
>  The problem is, msttf has crap for utf8 support. I thought it was
> gmails fault for ages until I went through its CSS and discovered
> "font-family: Arial;". Dispelled mstff and bampf, everything works.

I guess they assume everyone has a somewhat new Windows or Office XP,
those have an unicode version of Arial included (a 10Mb ttf file).
For people who don't want to completely dispel msttf, you can use
~/.fonts.conf to replace Arial with something else with a rule like:
  <alias>
    <family>Arial</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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