Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

["Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>]

Kristian Lampen wrote:
> Maybe this question is asked already several times, but I did not
> found the answer in the Net right now. Because sometimes late at
> night you have no time to crawl all over the internet to get it work,
> I ask this question again!
>
> 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? Thank You
>
> Kristian

There is not enough information here to diagnose your problem, but you
can find out why fonts are not working properly by using some commands:

xlsfonts <---------- shows you all of the fonts that X recognizes
xset q | grep -A 1 "Font Path" <-------- displays all of the directories
that X searches for fonts.

fc-list <------------ lists the fonts recognized by fontconfig
fc-cache <----------- rebuilds the list of fonts used by fontconfig
(Read "man fc-cache" before using!)

/etc/fonts <--------- configuration files for fontconfig

/usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/index.html <----- Read § 9.4.13 
"TrueType Fonts in X."

HTH