[bt-devel] again: Font problems

[Martin Gruner]

> The font problems are there again!
> Our slovak translator reported that the messages are correct in all other
> KDE and Qt apps  except BibleTime.
> I'm sure this is caused by our workaround (Slovak uses ISO8859-2).
>
> To make it working again with languages using another charset than 8859-1 I
> removed the workaround.
> Now I don't know how to work around this Qt limitation.

How can this be a qt limitation if it works in all other apps?

> Maybe changing the fonts would be the best? But we do have to rights to do
> such a thing.
> Do you have another idea? Otherwise all the greek and hebrew modules won't
> work.
>
> The sole workaround I found until now is to change the name of the charset
> in the fonts.dir files (for example
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sword/fonts.dir) to your local charset (for
> example iso8859-1 or iso885-2). At least this works for me, but could we
> really expect this of our users?

No. Rather leave it not working.
IMO we can't release 1.0 before it works. Otherwise bibletime is not a 
'stable app'.

Martin