[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Bug Report (current CVS): Online Help

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeff Mallatt wrote:

> At 2000/03/15 19:36 , Egbert Hinzen wrote:
> >
> >German non-ASCII-letters (ÄÖÜäöüß) are displayed as wrong symbols inside
> >the online help texts. They are displayed correct inside the index
> >words...
> >
> >(This error did not exist in the last release.)
> 
> The specification of the fonts used by the Gtk+ client have recently been
> moved from being hard-coded into a resource file.  I just checked, and it
> seems that the font spec for the help dialog was changed at this time from
>     -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
> to
>     -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> .  I don't know why (was there a reason, anyone?).
> 
> Also, now anything I try will not change the font!  Help!

I could reproduce the problem, and your suggested fix worked
for me:  apply the attached patch, and then either recompile,
or copy data/freeciv.rc to ~/freeciv.rc

-- David

--- freeciv-cvs/data/freeciv.rc Sun Mar  5 07:07:13 2000
+++ freeciv-mod/data/freeciv.rc Mon Mar 20 17:12:00 2000
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 style "help_text"
 {
-  font = "-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
+  font = "-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"
 }
 
 widget "Freeciv*.city label"           style   "city_label"