Hi, I have a problem with fonts generally and vim-gkt particularly, the initial screen has Roman crosses for tilde characters and boxes for normal characters. I have a similar problem with other applications, like AbiWord. Other applications display text fine, except for the About box, which shows squares.
I downloaded the source for vim and it appears that the default font string is -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*- 14-*-*-*-m-*-*-*" To narrow the problem, I wrote a small program and gave gtk_font_load the same string. The displayed text also showed squares. If I select a font in vim, or specify - adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-* in my toy program, text is displayed normally. I have read the recent post on font problems I have changed my FontPath per the suggestions, but to no avail. Im using testing version xfree86-common 4.1.0-7, I have xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts- scalable, and xfonts-scalable-nonfree. Does anyone have suggestions for fixing my font problems? Gary Setter
