Re: Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others
Calvin Chong <evil@linuxhall.org> writes:
> Hello Dominique,
>
> With reference to your great message on below,
>
> DD> Hello
>
> DD> When I launch gimp (for the first time), the 'GIMP Installation'
> DD> window shows only lines and lines of squares instead of text.
>
> Please give some information about your locale set.. :-)
Although I'm french, my station is pretty much configured as a us
station (down to the qwerty keyboard):
$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=
> and it would be best if you could
>
> [problematic program] 2>&1 | tee error_msg
>
> and attach it :-)
That's easy. There's no output.
> DD> I have the same problem with gnumeric cells but only for a
> DD> magnification above 75%. And if I type 6 letters in a gnumeric cell,
> DD> only 3 square blocks are shown. (could it be an attempt to display 16
> DD> bits characters ?)
>
> Then i wonder that it's a function-not-a-problem... :-)
> it may be an attempt to hide small character (correct me if i'm wrong)
> to give u a general look on your spreadsheet.
Sure, why hide only the big characters and display the little ?? ;-)
> DD> The number are displayed correctly in gnumeric if I choose a
> DD> magnification below 100%.
>
> [Question] what about 100% > magn > 75%? huh? :P
;-) it works at 75% abd fails at 76%
Cheers
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Dominique_Dumont@grenoble.hp.com
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