[Scribus] Double byte fonts again

Vladimir Zborowski vladimir.zborowski
Mon Jan 19 22:05:56 CET 2004


Hi,
It was indeed a problem with the font, or at least with the way it is 
installed, cos I've installed the big5 fonts available in mandrake and 
everything works smoothly now.
Vlad.
Peter Linnell wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 17:25, Vladimir Zborowski wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>I still have the same problem displaying chinese characters in Scribus.
>>Apparently I can import the text properly in UTF-8 (the texts displays 
>>fine in the story editor), but in the document itself, it's just blank 
>>squares, as if the matching glyphs were not defined in the font. The 
>>font (SimHei) seems to work fine though in OpenOffice.
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>Where could we get this font? Is it freely avaialble ?
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>> I submited a 
>>feature request for double byte font support, but apprently Scribus 
>>already supports them. I'm very new to Linux, so it's probable that 
>>there is something obious that I miss.
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>What are your locale settings ?
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>echo $LANG
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>>If anyone could tell me the points I have to check that would really 
>>help. I'm using Scribus v1.1.4.
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>Peter
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