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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:32:18
Message-Id: 358eca8f0606131513g29bb9e88o8035bc606ba95612@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution by Iain Buchanan
1 On 13/06/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution
5 > shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox shows
6 > square boxes in java applets when it should be showing spaces.
7 >
8 > Both applications show the tab / space as well, but there's these little
9 > boxes all over the place.
10 >
11 > I've tried installing a few fonts, or looking for use flags that might
12 > affect it, but nothing worked - I'm completely stumped.
13 >
14 > Can anyone help me solve this? What would you suggest? xorg.conf? use
15 > flags?
16
17 Not sure it helps, but I occasionally see the same effect with the
18 square boxes in Konqueror (I don't have Java on my systems). Changing
19 encoding manually solves it. So I assume that it is related to some
20 language code meta tag in the html/css code which Konqueror does not
21 like. Opera and FF seem to be less fussy about it.
22 --
23 Regards,
24 Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>