Bug 147675 – Konqueror renders some font families with meaningless symbols

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Luca 2006-09-15 03:42:46 UTC]

Overview Description: when browsing the web konqueror renders some font families with meaningless symbols. This is an example taken from code boxes of the gentoo forums: ftp://luc4.homelinux.org/images/code.jpg. This happens on my system only when minimum font size is higher or equal to 10. In this case the font family badly rendered is courier.

Steps to Reproduce: doesn't happen on every system it seems. Simply set minimum font size to 10 at least and browse code boxes of gentoo forums for instance.

Actual Results: strange symbols are showed.

Excpected results: courier font should be used.

Build Date & Platform: Konqueror 3.5.4 on Gentoo 2005.0.

cluca luca # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:30:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
LINGUAS="en it"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts asf authdaemond berkdb bitmap-fonts branding cdr cli crypt cups dlloader dri dvd eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libg++ libwww linguas_en linguas_it mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl pic png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl scanner sdk sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userland_GNU v4l video_cards_radeon vorbis win32codecs xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-04-09 18:35:46 UTC]

Can't reproduce. You might move your ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc file elsewhere, restart Konquoror and change your font to courier, but nothing else, to assure this is really triggered by the font. Your description in itself sounds more like you have changed the "standard encoding" drop down box on the config page to something else than "language specific encoding", but in conjunction with your statement that the font size matters it's getting completely weird.

[Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-04-30 15:08:53 UTC]

no feedback