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

Larry Butler larry_butler at hp.com
Fri Aug 2 16:53:35 MDT 2002


I'm using whatever version of Konqueror came with RH 7.3 ant it works fine for 
me.

On Friday 02 August 2002 03:24 pm, marciot 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
> 
> Look for the line that reads 'The next thing we add to our module file is 
the 
> C function that will be called when the Python expression 
> "spam.system(string)"is evaluated.' The word "string" shows up a gibberish.
> 
> Anyhow, I traced the particular problem to the stylesheet. Apparently when 
> "times" is specified as a font, Konqueror uses the "symbol" font (in the 
> Python docs, VAR is assigned times). Here is the simplest page I could come 
up 
> with the reproduces the problem:
> 
>   <STYLE> * { font-family: times; } %lt;/STYLE%gt;
>   This is greek to me.
> 
> I'm trying to find out whether this is a Konqueror bug and whether it should 
> be reported. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> 
> Marcio Luis Teixeira
> 
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