i get this problem with fonts

msimplay · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 161

check this screenshot and please tell me what i can do to fix it

them little boxes

http://wam-bam.myby.co.uk/Desktop.jpg

SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

Looks like an encoding problem. Try to specify different encodings. Just try some out. usually the webbrowser does this automatically. But sometimes he fails. for example I sometimes have to specify "UTF8" manually. Also here in the forums this happens all the time. I don't really know why though.

SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

And something else. Some fonts don't support all characters. Every unsupported character will be replaced by a strange square. Therefore you could also try out to specify some different fonts. I use "Nimbus Sans" and like it very much.

msimplay · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 161

thanks for replying
however i searched for a while and i found this link

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=220144&highlight=font+tutorial

i didn't really follow the tutorial however i did find the fonts i needed to emerge using it
and now those box problems have disappeared