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Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 12, 2006 23:21 UTC (Mon) by arafel (subscriber, #18557)
In reply to: Gedit Review (Softpedia.com) by khim
Parent article: Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Whereas on my machine (Kubuntu Breezy), GVim is the only one which shows that
correctly, with Kate a second, and GEdit more or less failing. (It shows the characters
individually, rather than composed.)

I think this is one of those cases where "your distro may vary".

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Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 12, 2006 23:29 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (4 responses)

gEdit needs variable-length font to work correctly - that's not the case for all distributions. Just select Arial and you should be all set.

P.S. The strange thing is that "fix" was suggested by my friend who's using Microsoft Word and knows nothing about gEdit, VIM or Kate :-)

Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 13, 2006 0:01 UTC (Tue) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link] (1 responses)

It's better, but still not right - I get a-acute now. :)

This is one thing I still dislike about desktops under Linux - if you get the right fonts installed (both in terms of charset and viewability) it looks really nice, but sometimes you have to go hunting.

Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 13, 2006 18:52 UTC (Tue) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

This might be useful: http://www.unifont.org/

Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 14, 2006 9:01 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

http://dejavu.sf.net/

Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 14, 2006 9:57 UTC (Wed) by micampe (guest, #4384) [Link]

gEdit needs variable-length font to work correctly - that's not the case for all distributions. Just select Arial and you should be all set.

Not really, I use Terminus and I see your character just fine.