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| author | Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> | 2003-10-24 09:27:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> | 2003-10-24 09:27:51 +0000 |
| commit | 548122a9952868ec2afc7e43fe18f38da880085e (patch) | |
| tree | 5ac7a890d39911913eba3ead5c477e3009e823c5 /etc | |
| parent | d05fa8a3505062b36a515a4fc4793f5825f68b39 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-548122a9952868ec2afc7e43fe18f38da880085e.tar.gz | |
* PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or
with wrong font under X.
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diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 70a748e9dc1..ec75c24116d 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -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. diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index ca00289218b..a59b496bf75 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -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 |