Quanta on FC5 shows wrong accented characters

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Apr 6 14:38:54 UTC 2006


Paul Smith wrote:
> On 4/6/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I have an HTML document produced with Quanta on FC4, but when I open
>>>>>> it with Quanta on FC5, the accented characters are not properly shown.
>>>>> Are you sure you have fonts installed that are capable of displaying them?
>>>> No, Rex, I am not sure. But what fonts should I install in order to
>>>> have Quanta displaying the accented characters correctly?
>>> I'd suggest starting with installing the mostly-unicode-ready
>>> dejavu-fonts (from Fedora Extras)
>>>
>>> $ yum install dejavu-fonts
>>>
>>> And configure your KDE environment to use those to see if it helps.
>> Yes, Rex, that did the trick. Thanks!
> 
> Perhaps, it would be good idea to make the rpm containing Quanta
> dependent on dejavu-fonts, would not it?

Packages in Core aren't allowed to have dependencies on packages in 
Extras, so one of them would have to move.

Paul.




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