Update to Xorg and font spacing is weirdly double spaced

Tim Wunder tim
Tue Aug 31 13:15:58 PDT 2004


On 8/31/2004 7:43 AM, I believe that David A. Bandel wrote:
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> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:44:49 +1000
> "James McDonald" <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
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>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Big5-HKSCS
>>>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>>
>>>Perhaps you didn't notice the above in Chang's headers?
>>>
>>>[snip]
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>>I didn't notice that. This issue didn't occur before I updated to
>>X.org so I'm assuming that the XFree86 v3.x had that charset support
>>so my question is. How do I add support for asian char sets?
>>
> 
> 
> Not sure, but you may have to make some changes (forget where) to
> compile in support for Asian fonts (which you probably won't recognize
> as letters anyway).  I actually suspect the behavior you have is correct
> and it's the older (but more convenient)
> behavior that is broken.
> 

FWIW, Mozilla under WinXP shows the font the same way that james sees it 
with his updated xorg...

Tim


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