Ximian Evolution Fixed-width fonts

I recently installed Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 on my woody desktop pc. When I first launched it, I noticed that the Fixed width fonts that are used for text in email were unreadable: the characters were just blocks. So I went to gnome-control-center -> HTML VIewer and changed the fixed-width font.

Fonts on an LCD Flat Panel

I'm starting to get very frustrated. I acquired a new computer with a 17" Flat Panel Monitor (a Gateway FPD1700). Installed Woody on it, and the fonts all looked quite horrendous. I followed all of the font-deuglification tricks with the TrueType directory's fonts.alias file, etc., but the fonts

gdkxft bad characters

Hi, I am using the gdkxft hack to get anti-aliased fonts in Gnome (Woody). I've noticed that certain fonts, most notably verdana, aren't rendering quite correctly. Hex characters and entities such as ndashes and single quotes appear as small squares. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Is this