Re: [tlug] Weird font problem

[Rudolf Ammann <ammann@example.com>]

 > So, in short, what is wrong with my X setup so that only OpenOffice
 > can render TrueType correctly?

Short answer: technically, there may be nothing wrong.

The "curly quotes" are "typographically correct", meaning that they're a 
good deal sightlier than the single primes for apostrophes and the 
double primes for quotes that used to be the only option you had on the 
Web until not so long ago.

The problem is that *as literals* they're not part of the iso-8859-1 
charset that the Whazzit page declares. Internet Explorer renders them 
correctly anyway and Moz/Firebird may handle them fine on some 
systems/font servers, but then again they may not on others because they 
just stick by the rules.

As literals, curly quotes, typographically correct apostrophes and a 
whole raft of other special characters are part of the Unicode (UTF-8) 
charset, and Moz/Firebird should handle them fine on any system if that 
charset is declared in the document head.

Some designers insist on typographically correct punctuation and, across 
platforms, their best bet are still decimal html entities, e.g. #8217 
for an apostrophe, #8220 for a left double quote and #8221 for a right 
double quote.

Further reading on entities:
http://www.evolt.org/article/ala/17/21234/

None of the above actually addresses your problem, however. Have you 
tried xfstt?

:: Rudolf