From kde-devel  Mon Nov 12 09:01:28 2001
From: Lars Knoll <lars () trolltech ! com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:01:28 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Special chars in khtml
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=100555570505483

On Monday 12 November 2001 09:56, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Fre, 09 Nov 2001, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > This approach was a workaround for Qt-2, which did map these chars to
> > boxes otherwise (for latin1 fonts, mostly used in khtml). With Qt3, the
> > reasoning behind this is wrong, and we shouldn't do this anymore. If at
> > all, Qt should provide a reasonable mapping for these chars, in case it
> > can't find a Unicode (or other) font contaning them.
>
> Just as a reminder.. the world doesn't only consist of X11 yet ;-)
>
> This workaround is still very much needed for Qt/Embedded, as the fonts
> there usually don't ship these characters either.

True for Qt Palmtop. If you're developing a Qt/E app yourself, you can also 
create fonts that contain these chars without much of a headache.

> We could try #ifdef'ing it and see what happens.

It might need a bit more work on Qts side, as we currently don't try to map 
them to Latin1 in case we don't find a reasonable font.

Lars
 
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