font issue.

2024-03-18 Thread home user
(f38 last patched last Thursday; gnome) I'm have some trouble with the display of Chinese characters in some situations. 1. In Firefox, Chinese characters show up as rectangles with 4-digit hex numbers in them.  The font is set to the AR PL UKai family of fonts. 2. In the gnome-font-viewer, th

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-25 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 11:41, stan via users wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2021 11:45:27 -0400 > "Eddie O'Connor" wrote: > > > Looking this up now!.(old age...is scary!turning 50 this > > yearand all the things I took for granted?...are starting to play > > "catch-up!sitting for long h

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-25 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Hmmnever though of changing my keyboard layout. I might give that a try...as for the walking / sitting? I'm going to have to break down and get a standing desk, with an electric motor...so that I can alternate between the two, I can only say thank goodness I was never "heavy" in my youth..I

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-25 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 24 May 2021 11:45:27 -0400 "Eddie O'Connor" wrote: > Looking this up now!.(old age...is scary!turning 50 this > yearand all the things I took for granted?...are starting to play > "catch-up!sitting for long hours in a dimly lit room?...paying > for that with my eyesight...

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-25 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Awesome!thanks for this one too!!! EGO II On Mon, May 24, 2021, 6:25 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 24/05/2021 23:05, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:51:57PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Interesting. Yes, that one works. Although the bolding when picking > size 20 seems

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 08:25 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Is there a way to use font color to represent bolding? It used to be (not sure if this was on Linux) that you had a choice of using bold or bright to emphasise some text. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 28

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 24/05/2021 23:05, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:51:57PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Interesting.  Yes, that one works.  Although the bolding when picking size 20 seems rather slight. But no difference with Monospace. Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Oh, BTW, I realized there

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 25/05/2021 05:39, Joe Zeff wrote: On 5/24/21 3:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 25/05/2021 04:52, Joe Zeff wrote: On 5/24/21 12:28 PM, George N. White III wrote: Bold  fonts are used for emphasis. Since color is almost universally available, there are lots of options to change colors (foregroun

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 5/24/21 3:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 25/05/2021 04:52, Joe Zeff wrote: On 5/24/21 12:28 PM, George N. White III wrote: Bold  fonts are used for emphasis. Since color is almost universally available, there are lots of options to change colors (foreground and/or background), but without conv

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 25/05/2021 04:52, Joe Zeff wrote: On 5/24/21 12:28 PM, George N. White III wrote: Bold  fonts are used for emphasis. Since color is almost universally available, there are lots of options to change colors (foreground and/or background), but without conventions we can't know what a particula

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 5/24/21 12:28 PM, George N. White III wrote: Bold  fonts are used for emphasis. Since color is almost universally available, there are lots of options to change colors (foreground and/or background), but without conventions we can't know what a particular color means without rtfm. And that

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 12:25, Mike Wright wrote: > Is there a way to use font color to represent bolding? > > Bold fonts are used for emphasis. Since color is almost universally available, there are lots of options to change colors (foreground and/or background), but without conventions we can't

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Looking this up now!.(old age...is scary!turning 50 this yearand all the things I took for granted?...are starting to play "catch-up!sitting for long hours in a dimly lit room?...paying for that with my eyesightlong sessions sitting in my desk chair?...paying for that with my ac

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 24 May 2021 11:57:45 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > At my work several people developed eye problems in the 1980's while > spending > long hours using CRT terminals. We also struggled to distinguish > look-alike characters, leading to time wasted chasing bugs. Young > eyes may be

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/24/21 8:05 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:51:57PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Interesting.  Yes, that one works.  Although the bolding when picking size 20 seems rather slight. But no difference with Monospace. Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Of course there is one s

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 12:05, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:51:57PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Interesting. Yes, that one works. Although the bolding when picking > size 20 seems rather slight. > > But no difference with Monospace. > > Yeah, I'm not sure about that. > > >

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:51:57PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Interesting.  Yes, that one works.  Although the bolding when picking size 20 > seems rather slight. > But no difference with Monospace. Yeah, I'm not sure about that. > > Of course there is one small issue.  If you're using a Bold f

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 10:51, Eddie O'Connor wrote: > Thanks you guys!!found the files mentioned (~Legacy.Profiles)made > the changes as recommended, and now it works. > > Interesting tho'.that something like that would be "removed"been > using Fedora for a long time, and it was a

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 24/05/2021 22:15, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:13:03PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Thanks you guys!!found the files mentioned (~Legacy.Profiles)made the changes as recommended, and now it works. That's interesting that you find it works for you. What font did you p

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:13:03PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >Thanks you guys!!found the files mentioned (~Legacy.Profiles)made > >the changes as recommended, and now it works. > > That's interesting that you find it works for you. > > What font did you pick?  I ask that since when I pi

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 24/05/2021 21:50, Eddie O'Connor wrote: Thanks you guys!!found the files mentioned (~Legacy.Profiles)made the changes as recommended, and now it works. That's interesting that you find it works for you. What font did you pick?  I ask that since when I picked Monospace Bold there w

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Thanks you guys!!found the files mentioned (~Legacy.Profiles)made the changes as recommended, and now it works. Interesting tho'.that something like that would be "removed"been using Fedora for a long time, and it was always "just there"...hopefully?...it will come back in future r

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 24/05/2021 05:42, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 04:22:05AM -0400, Eddie O'Connor wrote: I use the various apps and programs, to help my vision. I have opened the Terminal and have tried to change the font to something, ANYTHING "bold"?but there's no bold fonts options. the

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 04:22:05AM -0400, Eddie O'Connor wrote: > I use the various apps and programs, to help my vision. I have opened the > Terminal and have tried to change the font to something, ANYTHING > "bold"?but there's no bold fonts options. there's the Sans and > Monospace, but no Mo

Font Issue.....

2021-05-23 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Greetings my fellow Fedorans! I have a question / puzzle that I can't seem to fix. Ok s I am using a Lenovo ThinkCenter M-83 / 32GB RAM / 500GB SSD Installed a fresh copy of Fedora 34 on it and the install and initial setup went without a hitch. I have failing eyes, and I prefer certain fonts

Re: xterm font issue (SOLVED)

2011-02-27 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 02/27/2011 09:02 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 09:57 +0100, François Patte wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Le 27/02/2011 01:17, Mark LaPierre a écrit : >>> Hey Y'all, >>> >>> When I start an xterm I get: >>> >>> [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm >>> W

Re: xterm font issue

2011-02-27 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 09:57 +0100, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 27/02/2011 01:17, Mark LaPierre a écrit : > > Hey Y'all, > > > > When I start an xterm I get: > > > > [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm > > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type

Re: xterm font issue

2011-02-27 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 27/02/2011 01:17, Mark LaPierre a écrit : > Hey Y'all, > > When I start an xterm I get: > > [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct > xterm: cannot load font > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--1

xterm font issue

2011-02-26 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey Y'all, When I start an xterm I get: [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct xterm: cannot load font -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm -version X.Org 6.8.99.903(261) [mlapier@mushroom