Hi Bill,

> I got that same problem. As best I can tell, it means that
> the Windows "Symbol" font isn't available

That was all I needed -- thanks! The solution is to copy (sudo cp)
symbol.ttf from wherever it resides in the Windows partition (usually
/Windows/Fonts/symbol.ttf )to:

/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/S/symbol.ttf

... and Bingo! I now have readable Bayers.

--
Stephen Tonkin



Bill J Gray wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I got that same problem. As best I can tell, it means that
> the Windows "Symbol" font isn't available. It _might_ be possible
> to get around this issue, and some others, by having an actual
> Windows partition available (as you probably know, you can tell
> WINE to make use of Windows DLLs and such). I didn't do that; I
> wanted to test out a for-real Linux-only solution.
>
> As is mentioned on the update page, I lacked success with the
> Greek-letter font and with anything that involved downloading data
> (updating comets, grabbing DSS images, extracting star catalog
> data in Extras... Get Star Catalog Data, or updating TLEs by
> having them automatically downloaded). I have to admit that I
> didn't try very hard. I may return to this subject, though,
> because I did find that Linux/WINE turned up bugs that Windows
> didn't.
>
> -- Bill
>
>
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