# HG changeset patch # User Jan Dj¸«£rv # Date 1066987671 0 # Node ID 2f5fd6b2684bf12237063594eef38d9b499697ad # Parent 2a873c983524cffcdb3d9b16a4b80f0c9d8d25c6 * PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X. diff -r 2a873c983524 -r 2f5fd6b2684b etc/ChangeLog --- a/etc/ChangeLog Thu Oct 23 22:57:58 2003 +0000 +++ b/etc/ChangeLog Fri Oct 24 09:27:51 2003 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2003-10-24 Jan Dj,Ad(Brv + + * PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or + with wrong font under X. + 2003-09-30 Werner Lemberg * TUTORIAL.de: Minor updates and grammatical fixes. diff -r 2a873c983524 -r 2f5fd6b2684b etc/PROBLEMS --- a/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Oct 23 22:57:58 2003 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Oct 24 09:27:51 2003 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,20 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X. + +This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used. +For example, XFree86 4.3.0 has one version and Gnome usually comes +with a newer version. Emacs compiled with --with-gtk will then use +the newer version. In most cases the problem can be temporarily +fixed by stopping the application that has the error (it can be +Emacs or any other application), removing ~/.fonts.cache-1, +and then start the application again. +If removing ~/.fonts.cache-1 and restarting doesn't help, the +application with problem must be recompiled with the same version +of FontConfig as the rest of the system uses. For KDE, it is +sufficient to recompile Qt. + * Process output truncated on Mac OS X (Carbon) when using pty's. There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the