[Konsole-devel] [Bug 86786] Monospace is a bad choice as default fixedwidth font

[Hans de Goede]

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------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede hhs nl  2004-08-08 15:52 -------
Maybe konsole is a bad example (again). I was (am) reporting this against kcontrol because I believe the problem to be bigger then this, anything using fixed width fonts displaying advanced utf-8 is going to be bitten by the problem that the monospace font misses lots of characters.

Actually I've also submitted a bug against konsole because indeed is it using its own font instead of the system-wide configured fixed width font, which I found out after this bug was filed.

Please notice that I'm mainly a gnome user, and even more a commandline user. I was testing UTF-8 support in xterm, hit a few problems and after that have expanded my testing to gnome and kde, hence all the bug reports.

I also don't know that much about fonts :) If I've understood you correctly that there is no such thing as a Monospace font, and that the Monospace font name is just an alias which should be setup by the distribution to point to the best available font, then this bug can be closed and I'll refill it in Fedora's bugzilla.