>From the latest Debian X FAQ:
A long-standing bug in many X clients and the widget libraries they use was
recently brought to light by the addition of fonts encoded in ISO 10646-1
("Unicode" in common parlance) to the X Window System. The details are highly
technical.
The short answer: It's a bug in the application, or the widget toolkit (e.g.,
GTK+) that it uses. The authors and maintainers of all commonly-used widget
libraries are aware of the problem and a fix will likely appear in the future
(or may already be available by the time you read this).
It is not -- repeat *NOT* -- a bug in the X server, the X libraries, the X
fonts, or anything having to do with the XFree86 packages.
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My suggestion is for you to try re-setting the default font in the GNOME
theme selector, so that it uses the full, correct font name (with
iso8859 at the end). For applications which don't use GTK+ but are still
exhibiting this problem, try using a full font name, or make sure all
your libraries & programs are up to date.
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:37:55AM -0600, Mark Fox wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> About a month ago I started to see font problems in some X
> programs. Instead of characters I see squares. I've attached a PNG
> picture, of XEphem, which displays the problem. I've also seen this
> problem in 'gnapster', although some fonts display just fine.
>
> The problem started after doing a Debian upgrade. I
> uninstalled, and then reinstalled, everything X related, but the
> problem persists.
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