boxes for letters: finding a font

When an application shows squares where letters
should be, I'm assuming its because a font that
the app needs is not there.

Is there a way to determine what font file an
app needs when it shows squares for letters and
isn't complaining about the lack of a font?

The reason I'm asking this is because I got
the Opera browser going on Zipslack, and it works
ok except for the dropdown menus up top where
"file", "edit", and other stuff should be is only
square little boxes (the web pages and everthing
else shows up just fine) The only complaint it
gives is for libjvm.so and libawt.so which I did
a websearch for and found out they're part of the
java runtime, which is like 30 meg.

There are fonts and packages of fonts i could
dnld and see, but I'd like to be able to tell
ahead of time which one I need.

--
Buzzard

Buzzard wrote:
> When an application shows squares where letters
> should be, I'm assuming its because a font that
> the app needs is not there.
>
> Is there a way to determine what font file an
> app needs when it shows squares for letters and
> isn't complaining about the lack of a font?

Not with this little information. Please tell us the Linux distributin and
version of Opera you are working with.

> The reason I'm asking this is because I got
> the Opera browser going on Zipslack, and it works
> ok except for the dropdown menus up top where
> "file", "edit", and other stuff should be is only
> square little boxes (the web pages and everthing
> else shows up just fine) The only complaint it
> gives is for libjvm.so and libawt.so which I did
> a websearch for and found out they're part of the
> java runtime, which is like 30 meg.

Java installations and merging them with other tools are..... their own
adventure in compatibility and ocnfiguration.

> There are fonts and packages of fonts i could
> dnld and see, but I'd like to be able to tell
> ahead of time which one I need.

If you hint at the OS, we can give you some hints as to what you need. What
is your "LANG" set to, which you can check in a shell window by typing "echo
$LANG"?