On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:25PM +0000, Nick Leverton wrote: > I'm running Ralf's ktown KDE3.1 under Debian Testing, and I have a problem > with web pages which explicitly specify "arial" as the font. The problem > is that ordinary text displays fixed at some default size, yet bold text > displays at the correct size. http://www.leverton.org/test.html shows > it up. Arial, as far as I know, is the version from msttcorefonts > (though I do have Abiword installed). > > I also find that extended characters are displayed wrongly, for instance > copyright (©) is displayed as the Spanish upside-down-questionmark > and most accented characters come up as something else entirely. > > All used to be fine in KDE2.2.2. Other fonts than Arial appear fine. > If I show the same pages in Mozilla (v1.0.0) then it displays fine. So I > guess the problem may be in khtml's rendering in KDE3.1 ? Especially > sinze Quanta also exhibits the same problem. Can anyone else reproduce > this ?
I've put up a test page at http://www.leverton.org/test.html which demonstrates (with screenshots) the problem. I'd be grateful if a few people could find time to look at it and see whether they also get the incorrect rendering of Arial under Konq 3.1 on Testing. Nick
