Re: Red Hat 9.0 Font question

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:45:49PM -0500, Matthew D. Sale wrote:
> I'm having trouble with fonts on my laptop running Red Hat 9.0.
>
> 2 machines, same spreadsheet:
>
> #1  Red Hat 7.3, gnumeric 1.0.10, desktop machine:  Fonts OK
>
> #2  Red Hat 9.0, gnumeric 1.0.12, laptop:  Fonts have far too
> much spacing between characters.  This not only affects viewing,
> but printing also.
>
> Any suggestions?

The default locale in RH9 is utf8 based.  Gnumeric 1.0.x was based
on gnome-1.4 which didn't handle utf8 fonts nicely.  You have two
choices.

1) Use a locale with single byte encoding such as 'C'
2) Switch to gnumeric-1.1.x that handles all of that smoothly via
  pango.

Hope that helps
    Jody