[sane-devel] xscanimage font problem

Karl Heinz Kremer khk@khk.net
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:10:09 -0400


It may also help if you run this command before you start xscanimage:
export LANG=en_US.iso-8859-1
You need to run this in the same terminal in which you also start 
xscanimage.

Karl Heinz

On Jul 3, 2004, at 5:01 AM, Julien BLACHE wrote:

> Gene Stemple <gene_s@vtc.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>>     bad news is that the dialog window opened by xscanimage
>> is (mostly) unreadable.  The button labels are all there but
>> most of the characters are "mangled" so that I have to guess
>> what they say from the few characters, and context, that are
>> right.
>
> GTK 2.0 uses UTF8 all over the place; try installing some more fonts
> (specifically, xfonts-*-transcoded).
>
> What locale are you using, if any ?
>
> JB.
>
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