Bug#109611: X11-apps only display squares instead of characters

To: Ade Talabi <adetalabi@claranet.co.uk>
Cc: 109611@bugs.debian.org, allard@mail.Uni-Mainz.de
Subject: Bug#109611: X11-apps only display squares instead of characters
From: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:41:52 +0900
Message-id: <[🔎] 87u1yz8xxb.fsf@nausicaa.interq.or.jp>
Reply-to: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>, 109611@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20010822164549.R17928@posh> (Ade Talabi's message of "Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:45:49 +0100")
References: <[🔎] 200108221032.MAA09418@mail.Uni-Mainz.DE> <[🔎] 87r8u4m88b.fsf@nausicaa.interq.or.jp> <[🔎] 20010822164549.R17928@posh>

>>>>> "Ade" == Ade Talabi <adetalabi@claranet.co.uk> writes:

    Ade> Ben Gertzfield, debian seems to have a lot of problems with
    Ade> fonts. Why is that?

It's extremely difficult to test, and historically unix has required
a lot of by-hand changes to get them to work.

The defoma team is working on making it better, but that's really
only for package-installed fonts.

Ben

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- Bug#109611: X11-apps only display squares instead of characters
  - From: Dirk Allard <allard@mail.Uni-Mainz.de>
- Bug#109611: X11-apps only display squares instead of characters
  - From: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
- Bug#109611: X11-apps only display squares instead of characters
  - From: Ade Talabi <adetalabi@claranet.co.uk>

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