Bug#858142: xterm: ASCII underscore does not render when using -fa FreeMono -fs 14

["G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 05:58:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2017-03-18 16:37 -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 327-2
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: upstream
> >
> > Observe screenshot.  Wouldn't surprise me in the least if the problem is
> > really with libxft2,
> 
> Probably it's something else (Xresources? video driver?), because…
> 
> > but "xfd -fa FreeMono-14" works fine, so I figured
> > I would start with xterm.
> 
> …I cannot reproduce your problem.  See the attached screenshot, where
> the underscore is rendered just fine.

Your screenshot does not depict the FreeMono font; your screenshot has
serifs all over the glyphs; FreeMono (or at least the font resolved by
the name "FreeMono" on my system) is a sans-serif font.

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Regards,
Branden