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Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?



on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0800, Marc Wilson (mwilson@moonkingdom.net) wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> > Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I
> > lose fonts in Gnome, and all I see are dots where characters should
> > be.
> 
> Dots or boxes?  The font packages in X aren't broken and never have
> been...  it's an internationalization issue to which GTK apps (most of
> Gnome) are highly sensitive to.
> 
> If your GTK theme isn't completely specifying the font(s) it wants to
> use, you may well see this.

Do you have any hints or tips on where these specifications are breaking
down?

None of the double-byte fonts I've got are rendering properly.  I'm
doing a workaround by avoiding these fonts.  But I'd prefer an
alternative fix.

Peace.

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