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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#22529: khtml http://axkit.org/ utf-8 encoding problems revisited
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-03-16 16:51:44
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On Fre, 16 Mär 2001, mj@m-j-s.net wrote:

> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> 
> IMHO khtml should recode utf-8 -> iso-8859-1 (or whatever konqueror is configured \
> to use for the fonts) when no fonts with unicode encoding are installed.

well, guess what it does ?

the problem is that you HAVE a utf8 font installed so it WILL PREFER the 
utf8 font over the LATIN1 fonts. its very hard for a piece of computer 
software to JUDGE if the font looks GOOD to the USER. 

> 2. Now visit http://slashdot.org/
> which displays using the *same* ugly fixed font.

thats a bug and has been reported several times already, and IIRC from you 
already too. 


Dirk


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