From koffice  Thu Mar 28 09:15:50 2002
From: Environment Centre of WA <ecwa () ecwa ! asn ! au>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:15:50 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Kword and fonts
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Dear People -

Two weeks ago we installed Debian 2.2, KDE 2.2.2 and (of course) KOffice.

Trying out Kword today, I discovered that I was unable to access a whole
heap of extended characters from the center of the code-pages for any of
the installed fonts.  Specifically, I needed Alt+0151 "m-dash".  Also, the
"Insert Character" dialog box was extremely unstable.

Is this a bug that you need to know about?  Or could it be something to do
with the painful hacking I had to do to get our house fonts into the system?

I should mention that we are migrating from Windows, and normally I would
insert these characters using the Alt+<numeric keypad> -- which appears to
not be an option under Linux.

Gordon Edwards.

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