On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Mika Fischer wrote: > OK, we're getting somwhere I think. :) > You're right. Using "fixed" does work. And I think the reason is that on > my system "-*-fixed..." defaults to: > "-*-fixed-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0" which has a really weird > encoding and looks like Chinese to me :) > > So, when I use this font it's invisible in ion (with UTF disabled). > It's invisible in xterm, rxvt and Eterm as well. > There is no error message though.
You're talking about the strange font now, right? "fixed" works? > I guess one could live with this and I don't even know if there's a way > ion could check the encoding of the font to make sure it matches the > locale. I thought that was X's responsibility. > The problem with the UTF version persists though. With > LC_CTYPE="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I can't get any font to be displayed, not even if > I am specific like: > "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-15" > And there is no error message here either. But that's not a unicode font. Shouldn't you use "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1"? > > So I will have to disable UTF-8 in the package, I guess. > > I don't know. Perhaps we should try to fix the bug :) > I'd also like to help but I really don't know much about fonts and all > this stuff so you'd need to direct me a little... I don't really know much about fonts either.
