On Sat, Jul 07, 2007, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Some more dunno-how-useful facts: affected are only "inset" widgets like > GTKTreeview and text entry boxes. Japanese characters in titlebars and on > select > widgets are displayed normally. You can see this here in my music player: > > <http://download.noctus.net/gallery/caps/exaile_minimode_jap_chars.png> > > Strange fact: the program EasyTag does not seem to be affected. The characters > are not anti-aliased, but clearly visible. But Thunar and EasyTag both use > Cairo, Pango and Freetype …
This makes me think that probably your font renders badly at some sizes or for some font options or when antialiases. Perhaps you can try to play with pango-view and set --hinting to none or full, set the font size, with the same text? -- Loïc Minier