Re: severe problems with fonts under russian locale with gnumeric-0.71

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:30:15PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >  Gnumeric 0.71 contained attempt to improve font loading for multibyte locales
> > (it was stated in release notes).
> All that did was s/gdk_font_load/gdk_fontset_load/

 When it was made? Gnumeric should use the font gnome print returns to it, so
manual gdk_font_load or gdk_fontset_load is not anywhere.
 Could you please tell in which file that s/gdk_font_load/gdk_fontset_load/
happened?
 
> >  Unfortunately at least with version 0.71 there are severe problems using
> > gnumeric under russian locale - with any font of any style and size, the font
> > gnumeric uses for displaying russian is iso8859-1 encoding. It was tested with
> > gnome-print-0.31 already containing my recent fix to gnome-rfont.c (that
> > turned all gdk_font_load to gdk_fontset_load) - with that fix it would be
> > impossible to get font not suitable for displaying all locale's characters.
> >
> >  This new behaviour makes gnumeric non-usable under single-byte non-latin1
> > locales.
> >
> >  It would be nice if it was fixed
> This is a gnome-print issue, versions > 0.29 are causing a spike in
> gnumeric bug reports.  Unfortunately none of the mis-selected fonts
> or crashes are replicatable for me.  Can you please have a look at
> whats going on ?  Lauris has worked hard on the black magic in the
> bowels of gnome-print that select x fonts.  This must be ironed out
> before 1.0.

 I know that version of gnumeric before 0.71 and gnome-print-0.29 definitely
had problems with fonts - encoding of the font was random, different for
different font size and style.
 Gnumeric before 0.71 and GP 0.30 and 0.31 DIDN'T have such problems.

 Gnumeric after 0.71 and GP 0.30 and 0.31 have such problems.

 Where one can see the bugrepors about font problems? Are they available in
bugzilla or do you receive them in private mail?

 Best regards,
  -Vlad