Greek polytonic (ancient greek) font encoding problem

[Spiros Georgaras]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 Germain Garand wrote:
> Le mardi 23 septembre 2008, Spiros Georgaras a écrit :
> > Hi all
> >
> > Another font encoding problem I have stumbled upon using konqueror 4.1.2
> > (suse RPMs). Example page:
> > http://skeftomasteellhnika.blogspot.com/2008/09/sic.html (at the end of
> > the post you will see the "squares"). I have also tried
> > Greek-polytonic-capable fonts (Palatino Linotype, Athena etc.) but no go
> >
> > Can anyone confirm? Should we fill in a bug report?
>
> mmh I see that for e.g. upsilon+tilde and omega+tilde+iota subscript
> in the sentence "tou kurie phulaken...etc.", is that what you mean?
>

Yes, that's exactly what I mean

> This looks like a Qt glyph substitution bug and should be reported to
> trolltech at http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker
>

I have already reported it to trolltech, as you suggested but I didn't get a 
reference number or something - just a message saying that my mail has been 
sent :)

> The HTML page is using the Verdana font if available, and this font
> apparently misses some glyphs+diacritics combinations.
>
> So Qt's font engine should look for subsitution glyphs in other fonts, but
> it fails to do so for whatever reason.
>
> Germain

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Regards
  Spiros

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