On 2011-07-15, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> The problem is the same under any OS. Our user are free to pick the >> font they want (with or without accents if they are English speakers, >> limited to latin1++ for western countries...) and nobody knows whether >> visible space is in there.
No, under my OS (Debian Linux), even if I pick a screen font without the OPEN BOX character, I always see it: QT will use a replacement from another system font that has it. I wonder whether this is Linux specific or maybe even work with QT-apps under Windows if the user installs e.g. the free DejaVu fonts. Could someone with a Windows machine please test? What is the replacement character used by Windows? >> If we use it in our manuals, then many people will be just unable to >> view the manual! What does "unable to view the manual" precisely mean? Are people with an "ASCII-only" screen font unable to view the German manual with all its äöü? > Yes, that is why I'm using TeX code in the manual (e.g. the Math manual). If the "QT-auto-replacement" I see on my system works everywhere, maybe suggesting to install DejaVu with the Windows-Installer might be a more generic solution (for many many more missing Unicode characters)? Günter
