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changeset 52928:2f5fd6b2684b
* PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or
with wrong font under X.
| author | Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> |
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| date | Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:27:51 +0000 |
| parents | 2a873c983524 |
| children | 0def32311484 |
| files | etc/ChangeLog etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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 <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> + + * PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or + with wrong font under X. + 2003-09-30 Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> * TUTORIAL.de: Minor updates and grammatical fixes.
--- 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