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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Problems with AA Qt/KDE
From:       Denis Perchine <dyp () perchine ! com>
Date:       2000-12-27 9:47:31
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Hi,

> The AA version of Qt is not opfficially supported by TrollTech and was
> merely a hack (by one of the X11 developers) to show how easy it is to use
> the new font extension in X11. He explicitly said, that it only supports
> iso10646-1 and 8859-1 at the moment. And it will only show scalable fonts,
> as the X11 font extension can't deal with bitmap fonts at the moment. And
> the third point is realted to the first one.

OK, I will rephrase the question: will it be supported? And when?

> Lars
>
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Denis Perchine wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > seems like with all advantages AA bring, there are several, but very bad
> > disadvantages. Here is the list:
> >
> > 1. When you try to choose font anywhere in KDE you have only default,
> > iso8859-1, and iso10646-1 (actually Unicode), and nothing else despite of
> > existance of koi8-r, iso8859-* fonts. And they are the same fonts (just
> > the same ttf fonts mapped to koi8-r).
> >
> > 2. There is no any bitmap fonts in the list at all. Sometimes there are
> > really needed (in konsole for ex.)
> >
> > 3. Misteriously most of the encodings are lost in KMail's Message/Set
> > Encoding. Also I can not read any mails in Russian at all.
> >
> > All these things seems like bugs in AA Qt.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely Yours,
> > Denis Perchine
> >
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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

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