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

[mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:28:47AM +0100, Luis Arocha -data- wrote:
> Y el domingo 26 de agosto, Karsten M. Self escribi?:
> > 
> > This is probably a locale-related problem.  It seemed to effect a number
> > of Gtk apps on my 'unstable' box, though other applications may be
> > effected.  There's background on this going back several years in
> > XFree86 discussions.  I've posted on the topic to deb-user, thought I'd
> > posted to d-x.
> > 
> > The problem I'd noted was that iso8859 fonts were being ranked *after*
> > iso10646 fonts, and applications which can't handle other-than 8-bit
> > fonts.  
> > 
> 
> Is there any workaround to this problem? My X-Window System is near to
> unusable. Only Eterm and tk-apps work properly.
I had this problem when I upgraded and simply restarted xfs and it was fine.
Also apt the bot has something to say:
10:39 <apt> well, fontfix is that some people have been having problems with   
            XFree 4.0.x; if you have xfonts-base installed, but it still can't
            find the "fixed" font, try installing task-x-window-system. That
            seems to solve the problem for most people. Note
            task-x-window-system-core is not enough, though.  Make sure you
            have "xfonts-base" installed and that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
            is in your font path. ask me about fonts.alias, or don't forget to
            restart xfs
10:39 <apt> somebody said fonts.alias was run update-fonts-alias misc if your
            fonts.alias is missing for the misc dir

> 
> Saludos
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