Re: Last minute glitches - X11 font problem

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 12 January 2007 17:04, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 
> The issue is what to do by default if no specific encoding has been 
> specified by the user.  The code currently fills the fields in with
> wild-cards:
> 	-*-times-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> This used to work, or at least I convinced myself at one time that it was
> working.  Now it doesn't.  Perhaps this is because I now have newer
> versions of x11 (x.org); perhaps it is because I have a wider variety of
> fonts installed, including multibyte fonts; perhaps it is because I am now
> using a UTF-8 locale everywhere.  I don't know.

Follow-up:
I booted up last year's OS (Mandriva 2006 rather than 2007) and confirmed
that the current code _does_ work.  So the breakage is recent, and
I suppose is due either to the x.org libraries or to the font server.
I have versions
  working:	xorg-x11-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
  not working:	xorg-x11-7.1.0-6mdv2007.0

So I propose that for 4.2 we leave the default as it is, but I will add
an X-resource that can change the default on systems suffering from the
same oddity as Mandriva 2007 seems to be.  That permits a user-accessible
fix we can document in the FAQ.

I don't see any relevant bugs or fixes listed on x.org's Bugzilla site.
Does anyone on this list have a bleeding-edge version 7.2-cvs of x.org to
see if the bug is still there?  Rebuilding x11 from cvs source is a little
more work than I have time to tackle.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742