Gnome 2.10: Characters don't display properly?

schloob · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 44 Location: NY, USA

This is an odd problem I never got before, but when I installed Gnome 2.10 it just kind of appeared.

Here's an example of the problem: http://et.ath.cx/gnome.png

On the task bar on the bottom on the rightmost window you can see those 3 boxes that are usually like the undisplayable character boxes and such. I have no clue why they're there. They only seem to appear when there are more then two windows open and the title of the window is really long (as in like there would be a ... at the end (and now that I think about it, those boxes might be like some unicode '.' that doesn't work right)).

Anyways, I'm just curious if there's a fix for it, because it's just like.. annoying :\

Thanks,
schloob
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allanw · Arch/Herd Tester Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 60

bump up for this guy.

n3mo · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:15 am Post subject:

It seems to be an issue with UTF8 encoding, it's your system UTF8 ready ? If not try to follow the Howto on the Gentoo Website.
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schloob · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 44 Location: NY, USA

Ok, I solved the problem. Apparently it was the font I was using.

I was using dingbats because it had a cool name and it looked nice, but apparently the ellipsis (sp?) didn't display properly. After changing the font, everything looks fine.

Thanks for the help

-schloob
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