Originally posted by tommy
Does you have found a solution?
I have the same problem. Konqueror can't display some characters on websites with helvetica fonts. If i remove the helvetica fonts than konqueror uses the Bitstream Vera Sans fonts and everything works well. But i have to keep the helvetica fonts for my emacs
So just removing the fonts is no solution.
But how could i tell konqueror/kde to don't use the helvetica fonts?
No, I haven't found a solution. And - AFAICT - there is none.
As you have obviously found out, you can use qtconfig to configure font replacements and that, alas, these become active only when the to-be-replaced font isn't found by the system.
This is one of the main reasons why I don't use konqueror but firefox. gtk applications respect the settings in fonts.conf, qt applications don't.
Maybe some future version of qt will be able to handle such a simple thing - I really want to be able to decide which fonts my applications are to use.
Regards
mks