Hello, all. I hope this is such a stupid question that there is an obvious answer I overlooked in my search of FAQs and documentation...
I have been using Linux for about five years, and most of that time I have been running a Linux From Scratch system - that is, everything built from scratch and installed one package at a time manually. In all that time, web pages (Mozilla, then FireFox) and email (Evolution) which contained Unicode characters would display just fine - I never had to know anything about Unicode or configure special options during the build process, etc. Some time in the past few months, all support for Unicode has disappeared. Because I only rarely see Unicode displays (when a Russian programmer includes Cyrillic in a developer's mailing list, or a package I want to download comes from a Russian website) I did not notice exactly when the change occurred so I don't know which of the recent upgrades may have been responsible. I have removed XFree86 and installed a new build of X.org 6.8.1, removed and reinstalled all of Gnome 2.8.2, rebuilt FoxFire 1.0, and rebuilt Evolution 2.0.3... but nothing, including xfontsel and the new gucharmap, will display Unicode. xfontsel doesn't include utf or unicode as an encoding option, and gucharmap just shows little rectangles with hex code pairs in them, just like FireFox and Evolution. I even tried copying my backup of the old X11 install (/usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11) and entire /usr/gnome tree (where I installed all gnome and GTK packages) to see if going back to an old copy would help... it did not. I must have broken something at some point, but I don't know what! I use the same default build options that I always used; I use the same fonts that came with X that I always used (plus some TrueType fonts imported from Windows)... Can anyone suggest a runtime or build configuration option I can change to bring Unicode back? I don't need keyboard support, just font displays in X. I can send anything you need to see out of my /etc/X11 or other /etc files (except group and passwd :-) ) that would help solve this mystery... I just don't know what else to try. Kernel is 2.6.10, gcc 3.2.2, X.org 6.8.1, Gnome 2.8.2. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
