Falko I've followed your instructions on using the MS fonts (as well as copying the Tahoma fonts over to Ubuntu). However, everything goes good until I change over to the Tahoma fonts. What happens is instead of seeing better looking text on the screen, I get block symbols all across the screen (instead of letters/words). At first I thought I had a corrupt font file so I re-copied it again from a different Windows machine and went through the process again and the same result. I'm running Ubuntu v6.10 (not the 7.04 beta release). To get around this I changed things over to Sans with a 8 pt font. Not the same but usable. Any ideas on what would cause this issue and/or is there a possible fix/work around. Ben
That's the same locale I use on my system... You can run Code: sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales and select iso8859-1 instead of UTF8. Maybe that changes the behaviour.
Falko Thanks for the input. I'll re-install v6.10 tonight. I did a Ubuntu v7.04 install and your guide worked flawlessly. But I'll try again with the v6.10 tonight and letcha know it goes (as I want to test something else out as well). Ben
Falko Well, I've re-installed Ubuntu v6.10 onto my computer and followed your How-To and it's worked perfectly this time around. The only thing I can think of is that I missed a step in your How-To which caused this to go haywire a bit. Anyway, thanks for the How-To! Ben
Generating locales... en_AU.UTF-8... done en_BW.UTF-8... done en_CA.UTF-8... done en_DK.UTF-8... done en_GB.UTF-8... done en_HK.UTF-8... done en_IE.UTF-8... done en_IN.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done Generation complete. What do you mean select iso... ? Where? How? I still show blocks on Tahoma
That works a little bit different on Ubuntu. Have a look here for example: http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2007/01/how-to-change-your-default-locale-on.html
Another way to sharpen I run Gnome with Verdana 10pt as default font for everything. To my eyes, text looks very clean and sharp if my settings (System/Preferences/Font) are: Font Rendering: Monochrome (Details) Smoothing: None (Details) Hinting: Full. I wonder how this compares with falko's tweaking and Tahoma?
Well, I must say there is no locales problem. My other laptop has debian installed with utf-8 locale and had no problem with this tutorial so I've just change the tahoma fonts using that one I used on debian and now it's working.
