Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:25:31 -0800
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 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.
Near as I can see it, most Gtk apps that just assume "gchar" just will not
be able to cope with multibyte characters. I'm guessing the newest
Gtk/Gnome libraries (in beta) will provide a more elegant way to deal
with this.
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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