Re: Last minute glitches - X11 font problem

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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:52:44 -0800
> From: Ethan A Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Last minute glitches - X11 font problem
> To: gnu...@li...
> Message-ID: <200701122152.44765.merritt@u.washington.edu>
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> On Friday 12 January 2007 17:04, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> >
> > The issue is what to do by default if no specific encoding has=20
> > been specified by the user.  The code currently fills the fields=20
> > in with
> > wild-cards:
> > 	-*-times-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> >
> > This used to work, or at least I convinced myself at one time that it w=
as
> > 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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Ethan,

I have Mandrake 10.1, Redhat (Core 2?) and Solaris that I can test on.

I have noticed odd X11 font stuff, but I figured I was just screwing up the=
 font specification.  Do you have a sample font specification to test with?

Mike Sutton

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