Re: [Evolution] square-letter-square-letter, evolution 1.05, gnome 2.4, debian-testing

[Benjamin Kahn <xkahn zoned net>]

Joost,

        I remember seeing this a *LONG* time ago.  (As Jeff says, Evolution
1.0.5 is very old -- not even the latest bug fix release in the 1.0
series.)  I don't remember the exact solution to the problem, but I
believe it had to do with the font selected.

Check to make sure the font character set you are using is correct for
your locale.  I would pick iso8859-15 I believe for my locale.

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:50, Joost Witteveen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In some configurations, and I cannot figure out what configurations
> excactly, Evolution starts to show a square/space before each
> character/letter, in the window where it displays the body of a message.
>
> On the main system we use, some people are plagued by it, while others
> aren't. They use XFree servers that are identically configurated, so
> that doesn't seem to be the problem.
>
> Usually it happens when Evolution tries to display HTML email -- the
> HTML part (including the `headers' in the normal Message Display state)
> gets `squared up'.
>
>
> Sometimes (as can be seen in the screenshot below) evolution decides to
> show spaces instead of squares inbetween each letter.
>
>
> Screenshot:
> http://co.uea.org/~joostje/evolution.png
> Here you see the lovely Ximian welcome message displayed in the `squared
> up' format, and this email I tried to type in Evolution (to the right).
>
>
> XF86Config-4, font part (simplest try, adding more lines seems to make
> no difference):
>
> Section "Files"
>          FontPath      "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>          FontPath       "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
>
> Versions:
> evolution 1.05
> gnome 2.4
> debian-testing (been having the problems for several mounths)
> linux-2.4.24 & 2.6.1 (and others)
>
> Does anyone know how I could fix this (or where I should start looking
> to fix it?)
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> joost witteveen
>
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