This package was somehow auto-installed in a release upgrade today from 14.04 
to 14.10, and cost me most of the day trying to figure out why everything in X 
was glitchy and crashing.  The terminal looked like
http://askubuntu.com/questions/285836/letter-spacing-in-gnome-terminal

Even xterm would crash on ctrl-right-click, and these badly-spaced
strange characters appeared in almost every terminal emulator (xterm
worked, except for its menus).  Font selection dialogs ground the
computer to a halt, and even the window manager titlebars were in a
wonky font.  Yet, something was showing, so it was a lot of work to
investigate the entire stack of X11, Xft, fontconfig, freetype, pango,
gtk, etc to find what component was bad.

sudo apt-get purge pango-graphite

solved the problem.  No idea how that package got installed, but it's
removal fixed everything immediately.  There is a serious problem with
this package in the 14.10 release of ubuntu as well.

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