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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Characters Recognition Errors In KDE, While Using Thaana Fonts
From:       Jeffery MacEachern <j.maceachern () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-03-02 11:30:11
Message-ID: AANLkTi=XP0XLJEUJp4g88PZooqmP6y+bkC-aeUug4Ye+ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 03:20, John Layt <john@layt.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 March 2011 23:51:13 Mohamed Malik wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm from Maldives and i have this error while using KDE apps in my native
>> language Thaana.
>>
>> For some strange reason all I see is squares in the place of characters.
>>
>> I have attached some screen shots of KDE applications, while trying to use
>> them, however this works well with GNOME applications. If i remember
>> correctly it worked fine under KDE 3X while i used it back in the year 2007
>> with Opensuse 10.1
>>
>> Thank You For Your Help..
>>
>> I have also attached the most frequently used Thaana Fonts Aswell.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Mohamed Malik
>
> That definitely looks like a font issue, that box is what gets displayed when
> the current font doesn't have the Unicode character required.  Seeing as you
> have the fonts installed and working in Gnome, have you gone into the KDE
> System Settings and configured KDE to use those fonts as I don't think we auto
> configure them.  Just go into System Settings / Application Appearance / Fonts
> and choose the Thaana fonts and hopefully it all works.

I think that is the case. If you look at the Latin characters in the
screenshot, they look to be displayed with the default font (whatever
it is), and definitely not with the ones attached.

Cheers,
 - Jeffery MacEachern

> Be sure and let us know if you find any other issues.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John.
>

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