Bug 170256 - mathematical symbol for sigma rendered as "?"
Summary: mathematical symbol for sigma rendered as "?"
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: ksvg
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nikolas Zimmermann
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-09-02 15:13 UTC by Jeremy W. Murphy
Modified: 2011-10-17 21:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Screenshot proving that it Works For Me. (100.62 KB, image/png)
2009-01-20 02:08 UTC, esigra
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Description Jeremy W. Murphy 2008-09-02 15:13:05 UTC
Version:           0.1 (using KDE 3.5.9)
Compiler:          gcc 4.1.2 x86_64
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

On the following Wiki page, Konqueror shows the symbol for small letter sigma "σ" as expected.  If you click on the SVG image, opening it in KSVG, sigma is replaced by a question mark "?".
Comment 1 Jeremy W. Murphy 2008-09-03 03:06:30 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Electron_orbitals.svg

Whoops, forgot to include the website address.  :)  As a side note, I just tested it in Safari 3.1.2 and the sigma symbol appears as expected when the SVG file is opened.
Comment 2 esigra 2009-01-18 12:40:00 UTC
Works For Me. I assume that you do not have the font installed. Try "emerge -av media-fonts/corefonts".
Comment 3 Jeremy W. Murphy 2009-01-20 00:34:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Works For Me. I assume that you do not have the font installed. Try "emerge -av
> media-fonts/corefonts".
> 

I'm away for a week (at a Linux conference), but I'm 99% certain that I have corefonts installed on both my machines (both of which exhibit the problem).  Also, why would there be a problem with only sigma (and not pi) if the font was missing?  And, it renders fine using librsvg (in GIMP, for example).
Comment 4 esigra 2009-01-20 02:08:34 UTC
Created attachment 30440 [details]
Screenshot proving that it Works For Me.

Here is the screenshot of Konqueror (embedding KSVG) proving that it Works For Me. Note that I have KDE 3.5.10, which is not marked stable by Gentoo yet. So I have a line like the following in /etc/portage/package.keywords for each KDE package:
=kde-base/ksvg-3.5.10* ~x86
Comment 5 Jeremy W. Murphy 2009-01-20 03:12:09 UTC
It's OK, I believe you if you say it works for you, I'm sure it works for many people, I just hope you believe me when I say that it does not work on either of my computers running KDE (3.5.10 now), one of which is ~x86, the other ~amd64.  I can answer general questions but can't look at it in any detail until I get home around the 27th Jan.
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2011-10-17 21:07:05 UTC
This component has been replaced with the QtSvg based "svgpart" in KDE 4. If
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