Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.0) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs OS: Linux Configurate Konqueror to use generic fonts such "sans" and "serif". Now check a webpage with non latin-1 letter (http://pl.wikipedia.org for instance). You can see that non latin-1 are displayed as squares. Now check the page with Mozilla using the same font configuration. You can see that font substitutions are made and the page is rendered correctly. I guess that the problem comes from that Konqueror doesn't do the font substitution correctly as it should do with a generic font (and as Mozilla does). I think this worked correctly with KDE 3.1. I'm not 100% sure though as i don't have KDE 3.1 anymore but i think i would have noticed this problem as i often go to websites that use non latin-1 letters. Thank you very much.
I can comfirm this, using cvs HEAD
we never did per character font selection and relied on Qt for that. Qt 3.0 did that and it was removed with qt 3.1 as it never worked reliable.
The same problem occurs with many languages and fonts. A bit annoying. Thanks, Yann
This problem is still present with kde 3.5 RC1. Quite annoying. GTK+ applications handle this correctly. Thanks.
I must add that this problem is not specific to khtml but is general inside KDE. Any application has this problem, konsole, kwrite, etc. Thanks.
Maybe Qt4 will fix this.
Bug 47682 is similar and may be caused by the same bug in Qt.
It does appear to work much better in Qt4... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47682 ***