On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Giuseppe Ghibo' wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> >
> > Note that this is not a problem of KDE or XFree86, but an
> > incompatibility between freetype 2.0.2 and the font file
> > n021004l.pfa ('Nimbus Roman No9 L Medium' from URW fonts
> > and also AbiSuite) which used to work. It is the glyph
> > '�' (\,c) appearantly.
> > The bug is not fixed in the CVS version of freetype2 and
> > it also affects non-Qt programs like xterm.
>
> Latest freetype-2.0.2 is not CVS. It that affected too?
>
I tried the version you used in freetype-2.0.2-1mdk and the CVS
snapshot from
ftp://freetype.sourceforge.net/pub/freetype/unstable/freetype2-current.tar.gz
Both have the same bug that was not in 2.0.1-1mdk, but I did
not look at anything else.
Until the freetype people come up with a solution, it should
be safe to use my patch. It hides the bug by refusing to
access a NULL pointer. That code line is executed once during
program startup and only if the (broken?) n0210041.pfa font
is installed.
Arnd <><
