[bt-devel] again: Font problems

Joachim Ansorg bt-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 1 May 2001 11:23:16 +0200


Hi!

> > 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?

Qt does refuse now to use fonts which have a wrong charset set, but this was 
possible in earlier releases.
It works everywhere else because the others do not use greek or hebrew fonts.

> > 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'.

hehe, if we do this we can not release it for ever!

> Martin

Joachim