Re: gnumeric 1.0.5-5 is displaying in a weird way

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 11:08:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   under the new red hat limbo beta, which incorporates the
> gnumeric-1.0.5-5 RPM, when i open a data file built from the
> previous gnumeric, what i get is the original data, but with
> dotted boxes displayed between every pair of characters.
>
>   in addition, some numeric fields are displayed full of the
> '#' character, again with intervening dotted boxes between the
> characters.
>
>   is there a quick setting fix for this?  i can email someone
> a short file that shows this if they need an example.  thanks.

The problem is with your font configuration rather than Gnumeric.

The #### indicates that the number is too wide to fit in the column
and the dotted boxes indicate that the character does not have an
entry in the selected font.