on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:40:03PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:07:50AM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > The font packages in unstable are the ones that seem broken and have been > > for at least two months. If I upgrade them, Gnome starts up but instead > > of seeing alphanumeric characters on the panel (and also on some apps), I > > see boxes that are made up of dots. > > They're not broken, then. You're seeing the double-byte problem with GTK > apps. This isn't a Debian problem, it's a GTK problem. Perhaps the > people in change of GTK development will fix it some day. > > In the mean time, select a 8859-1 font, and you should be OK again.
Supposed to be fixed, if I read the libgtk bug page right, in libgtk1.4. Debian/unstable's currently got 1.2. When this changes I've no clue. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107554&repeatmerged=yes To say this is old would be an slight understatement. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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