On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Jason Goodman wrote: >Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:15:50 -0600 >From: Jason Goodman <goodmanj@uchicago.edu> >To: xfree86-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Font problem: Rectangular blocks > >I recently upgraded from a modified Redhat 6.2 to Redhat 7.2. I'm now >having some strange font problems. Certain sizes of some fonts in certain >applications do not appear as letters: instead, I see rectangular blocks >with dotted outlines. Interestingly, I see one rectangular block for every >*two* characters that should be displayed, suggesting that the problem >somehow involves two-byte fonts. > >There's a screenshot of the problem at http://www.mit.edu/~goodmanj/fontbug.jpg > >I've noticed the problem with Gnumeric, Real Player 8, xmms, and maybe some >others which I've forgotten. In some cases, I can solve the problem by >configuring the program to use a different font, but not all programs are >that configurable. > >Interestingly, in Gnumeric, text typed into a currently-selected cell is >visible, but text in unselected boxes shows up as rectangles. Either your applications are not specifying a font encoding, in which case *any* encoding is valid including Unicode (ISO10646-1), or the font chosen/configured in the app is Unicode. The solution is to reconfigure the application and specify the proper encoding for the fonts you're using ie: ISO8859-1 Hope this helps. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: xfree86-list@redhat.com General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
