Bug#213286: xfonts-base: fails to produce ISO 8859-1 font which can be loaded into emacs
Package: xfonts-base
Version: 4.2.1-11
Severity: important
After updating x-fonts a few days ago, no usable latin-1 fonts can be loaded into emacs any more.
Furtermore, many system fonts are ugly, or scale badly. This affects for example evolution, galeon, and almost any other x-program.
See for example the following:
marc@chiron:~$ emacs .bashrc
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
marc@chiron:~$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 21.2.1
Other fonts installed:
marc@chiron:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep font
fontconfig install
freefont install
gsfonts install
libfontconfig1 install
msttcorefonts install
sharefont install
xfonts-100dpi install
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded install
xfonts-75dpi install
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded install
xfonts-base install
xfonts-base-transcoded install
xfonts-intl-european install
xfonts-scalable install
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux chiron 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Sam Mär 30 00:56:06 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xfonts-base depends on:
ii xutils 4.2.1-11 X Window System utility programs
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