Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Michelle Konzack wrote:
...
> > I run Etch with the recent updates on an Acer Aspire Laptop. But since 
> > several weeks I have a font problem under X(org). The "normal" letters 
> > all look good, but instead of special letters like "öäü..." I see just 
> > white Boxes with a hexadezimal(?)-code inside. Not always in all 
> > programms, but in the most. I thought it is just a problem of not 
> > installed fonts or wrong Language-setting, but I did not manage to fix 
> > this till now.
> >
> > Maybe someone Can Help me?
>
> Since you need the deutsche Umlaute (ja ich lebe hier an der Grenze)
> do you have installed the
>
>         xfonts-base-transcoded
>         xfonts-scalable-transcoded
>         xfonts-75dpi-transcoded
>         xfonts-100dpi-transcoded
>
> since they provide the missing fonts to us-ascii...
...
>     Michelle Konzack
>     Systemadministrator
>     Tamay Dogan Network
>     Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

Thanks, installing

xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded

and running

fc-cache -v

fixed the problem I had with xmms not displaying accented characters in 
file names and MP3 tags (-:.

Arthur.