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Bug#213286: marked as done (xfonts-base: fails to produce ISO 8859-1 font which can be loaded into emacs)

Your message dated Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:26:51 +0100
with message-id <4600519B.6080700@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line Bug#214449: xfonts-base: ISO8859 font problems for several programs
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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

-- no debconf information

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Closing since people either did not see the problem for a long time or
did not reply to my ping more than a month ago.

Brice

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