Re: Problems with special characters

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:52:09AM +0100, Christoph Fabianek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem with Gnumeric 1.0.0: Text containing special 
> characters (e.g., ????) is not displayed correctly in the cells i.e., it only 
> displays the characters till the first special character (example: 
> "zur?ckgeben" becomes "zur"), although the text is shown completely in the 
> "data entry area".
>
> I have recently set up my computer from scratch (Debian/testing with gnumeric 
> from unstable) and perhaps something is missing, but no other applications 
> (including Gnome-Apps) show this behaviour. Does anyone know a solution?

This is a fairly common complaint it boils down to fonts.  The
situation will improve with gnome2.  For now you'll need to tweak
you gnome-print installation to get fonts with the necessary
encodings.