[NCLUG] Konqueror bug? Times shows up as greek...

[marciot]

>===== Original Message From nclug at nclug.org =====
>* On 2002-08-02 21:25 marciot <marciot at holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
>> I'm wondering if anyone ever had this problem: When viewing certain web
>> pages with Konqueror (3.0.0-12, under RH 7.3), text shows up in greek.
>> I have the particular problem all the time when reading the online
>> Python docs. For example:
>>
>>    http://www.python.org/doc/current/ext/simpleExample.html
>
>I'm running Konqueror 3.0.0-12 under KRUD 7.3 and do not see this problem.

I found a Konqueror bug report that addresses the problem:

   http://bugs.kde.org/db/22/22920.html

The second to last message points out that Konqueror uses "greekpoly times" 
rather than "times". So I'm guessing the issue only appears when "greekpoly" 
is installed. Could you execute this command and see if you get anything?

   xlsfonts | grep "greekpoly times"

On my machine I get:

-grinet-greekpoly times-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-grinet-greekpoly times-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

My next step is to figure out what on earth "greekpoly" is for and which RPM 
installs it.

Right now it isn't clear to me whether this is a Konqueror bug or not. Could 
Konqueror be getting confused with the space? The bug report is really old, 
apparently applying to Konqueror 2.1, so I'm wondering why this never got 
fixed.

Marcio Luis  Teixeira