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Re: antialiased fonts



On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:53:30PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> From the Gtk manual:
> If you have the Xft library, you can turn on anti-aliased fonts by setting the GDK_USE_XFT environment variable. 
> GDK_USE_XFT=1
> I think i've heard about a problem with anti-aliased fonts in Arabic "when scaling some fonts"
> i'm not sure about this or where i heard this!

GDK_USE_XFT=1 will activate anti-aliased fonts, but if the fonts
themself don't exist, Gdk will show wrong glyphs (UTF-8 boxes with
numbers in it).

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