Re: [Evolution] Re: Fsck'd Japanese fonts in 1.2

[Melvin Sneed <melvin sneed worldnet att net>]

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 16:04, Larry Ewing wrote:
> It is a gtkhtml font problem.  Gtkhtml stores it's fonts in gconf in 1.2
> so if you are changing the old gnome-config files that will not change
> things.  I'm not sure exactly what trouble people are having, and simply
> saying it is broken doesn't really help.  If you would like to see this
> resolved add specifics of your font settings and the problems you are
> having to the bugs in bugzilla.ximian.com that already refer to this
> problem.
>
> --Larry


<whack>

Larry,

I started this particular thread, but it is really a follow up to
many threads from many people who cannot get japanese fonts to
work correctly with 1.2.0 or 1.2.1.  I have set up a test environment
with a clean redhat 8.0 install followed by a clean 1.2.1 install via
redcarpet.  During the redhat install I did install JP support. I
verified this with the usual environment variables.  Mozilla works.
1.0.8 works.  1.2.1 does not.  I tried *every* 2 byte font available
under redhat 8.0 and it's always nothing or mojibaki (gibberish).  

I have spent weeks trying to find someone who has japanese fonts working
under 1.2.x.  No luck.

As I said, I have a test bed so if you Ximian guru's will point me in a
direction I will be more than happy to see what I can do to help out. 


Dave Maddox