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

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/03/20 01:28 , David Pfitzner wrote:
>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

Okay, ~/freeciv.rc worked for me.  However, what I had tried was adding an
entry to my ~/.gtkrc file -- and that did not work.  It did work for an
earlier version of resource file loading that was posted to the dev list.

jjm