[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New city dialog

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2001 17:54 schrieb Michael Stefaniuc:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:31:45PM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa 
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2001 16:07 schrieb Christian Knoke:
> > > > I've put them here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.enter.de/~c.knoke/bugs/help.png
> > > > http://www.enter.de/~c.knoke/bugs/seropts.png
> >
> > The monospace fonts are precisely for avoiding that ugly staircase
> > effect you are experiencing.
> >
> > > > > Secondly i would guess that
> > > > > SuSE doesn't come with the fonts i chose (Lucida IIRC). But
> > > > > it should come with Courier. And that is also a monospaced
> > > > > font.
> > >
> > > I now have
> > >
> > > style "help_text"
> > > {
> > >   font = "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"
> > > }
> > >
> > > in
> > >
> > > /home/chris/freeciv.rc
> > >
> > > but it doesn't help.
> >
> > Hmm... Odd. I know for a fact that Germany uses ISO8859-1 also
> > so... maybe
>
> Not anymore. Due to this braindamaged decission that the Euro needs
> it's own funny symbol we mostly use now ISO8859-15. At least this is
> true for the newest Red Hat Linux versions, but I suppose SuSE does
> that too (you need to do this if you still want to sell software in
> Germany).
>
> > SuSE doesn't come with that font size? That is strange since
> > Courier should be an Adobe Type 1 font. And outlined fonts can be
> > any size. Could
>
> Maybe no Courier ISO8859-15 font and it get's replaced with something
> else instead of Courier ISO8859-1?

I created font = "-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15"
with xfontsel, and it doesn't change anything. Size 14 is not available
in that encoding.

Christian

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