[Mageia-discuss] Strange font color

Mon May 9 06:48:17 CEST 2011

On 9 May 2011 06:43, Frank Weng (a.k.a. Franklin)
+<franklin at goodhorse.idv.tw> wrote:
+> Hi, thanks for your reply.
+>
+> Please see below.
+>
+> Ahmad Samir 於 0100-05-09 寫道：
+>>
+>> Did you try changing the color scheme to Oxygen or any other one?
+>
+>
+> Yes, I've tried many color schemes.  It did not help.
+>
+> However, I found that this might be issues about the fonts.  I imported the
+> Windows fonts from my Windows partition.  Using Windows fonts are okay, that
+> is, the characters shown in the task bar are black, not white.  Then I tried
+> some fonts.  Only "AR PL UKai TW" shows black characters.  "AR PL UMing TW",
+> or other English fonts like "Dejavu Sans", "Dejavu Serif", ... etc., all show
+> white Chinese characters and black English characters.
+>
+> I have no idea what the fonts the system will use when I specify "Dejavu Sans"
+> to the taskbar font and it needs to show Chinese.  I have no idea either why
+> some Chinese fonts show white Chinese characters and some (acutally so far
+> only one) shows black Chinese characters.
+>
+> Now my problem can be temporarily solved by specifying the fonts to AR PL UKai
+> TW.  However, do you have any idea why this problem would happen?
+>
+>
+> Thanks,
+> Franklin
+>
+
+Unfortunately, I don't know much about Chinese fonts. Hopefully
+Chinese users will chime in...
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+