On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Bruce Park wrote: >Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 23:07:25 -0400 >From: Bruce Park <bpark79@hotmail.com> >To: xfree86-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_5b1b_25de_2ad0" >List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com> >Subject: font problem > >Hello, > >I was wandering if anyone could help me out with this problem. >If you take a look at my screen shot(please download photo) of the gnome rpm >screen, you'll notice that in the names of these rpms the squares are >replaced by a tiny square box. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? >I am currently running 7.3 and using the latest rpms. I am under athalon xp >instead of intel pentium. Would this have anything to do with it? My >suspicion is that something is wrong with the font system within x-windows. >If anyone can help me out, I would truly appreciate it. Thank you. A square box in place of a letter or other glyph means that the character being displayed does not exist in the font that is currently being used. This is called the "default character". Older versions of XFree86 would just display a "space" instead, but this often hid bugs. The current standard is to display the default character, which is the box you see. This can happen because of different reasons: 1) The font doesn't contain the character being displayed. or 2) The application is displaying incorrect characters that do not happen to be available in the given font. There are other potential reasons as well. Generally, the solution is to choose a font which contains the characters being displayed, or in the case of it being an application bug, for the app to get fixed. Hope this helps, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
