KDvi Doesn't Know Where to Find Fonts

[James Richard Tyrer]

徐冠鹏 wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:  
>  
> 
>>Sorry if I wasn't clear, I need to know about the name of the font -- is it a  
>>Latin name or a CJK ideographic name and if a non-Latin character name (like  
>>your name) what encoding does the font use for its *name*.  To be clear.  
>>"simsum" is in Latin characters but the example below is a Chinese name in  
>>ideographic characters. 
>> 
>>The known bugs are with Type1 fonts not providing the family name in a way that  
>>Qt expected.  So, this is probably not the problem. 
>> 
>>So, I suspect that this is a related problem to a previous question.  The  
>>previous question had a font name in GB2312.  In UTF-8, the font name was ????? 
>>and this isn't showing up correctly here but I think that that is a font issue  
>>since it shows up correctly in the Mozilla spelling checker.  That is the UTF-8  
>>code in HEX is: e9 94 9f e6 96 a4 e6 8b b7.  I am told that this translates to  
>>FangSong in Latin characters. 
>> 
>>If you have such a font name, I do not know how Qt and KDE or FontConfig handle  
>>such a name and therefore asked about this on the development list. 
> 
>  
> The name is Latin name. For example, 'xlsfonts | grep simsun' shows:  
>  
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-gb2312.1980-0 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-gb2312.1980-0 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1983-0 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1983-0 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1990-0 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1990-0 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r 
>     -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r 
>  
> Furthermore, 'xdvi' can generate the additional fonts correctly, and  
> some other KDE applications (so they use Qt) do display chacacters  
> with font 'simsun'.  
>  
> Thank you very much.  

 From the information you provided, my best (educated, but still a) guess is 
that this is a font specific bug with that application, or it might be a general 
bug with CJK glyphs with that application.

Could you please try a different font and see it it works correctly with a 
different font.

--
JRT
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