On 05-Jan-2002 Geir Torstein Kristiansen wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 18:16:58 -0800 (PST) > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ok, let's get all of the facts. >> >> Are you using a locale other than C? > > locale says everything is set to "en_US" >
And Bingo was his namo. Blackbox has two completely separate code paths for getting a font. If the locale is set to "C" (or not set) you get the old style XGetFont calls. If ANY locale is set, blackbox uses the multibyte XFontSet calls. The pcf files in question do not return valid data as far as XFontSet is concerned so it defaults to a large "fixed" font instead. This is why the display is odd. I would really love to know why this happens, so if any of you grok XFontSet or know who does, please contact me.
