Yes, this package is utterly broken. (I think it is because of a version
incompatibility with libgraphite3.) Please, can someone either fix it,
or remove it. It's dangerous as it is: if someone installs it and then
restarts the system, Gnome will not even start.
WORKAROUND: If you need Graphite
I just wanted to bump this, if possible. This bug is still present in
Karmic. More exactly, the problem is that when pango-graphite is
installed together with at least one Graphite font, then characters in
the ranges U+0021 to U+0040 and U+00A1 to U+00BF will be rendered with
glyphs from the
I forgot to mention that it is not only the characters in the above
mentioned ranges that are affected. In fact, it seems to affect most
(all?) non-alphabetic characters. For example, U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL
INDICATOR and U+00BA MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR are rendered correctly
in the selected
