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Monospace font bug?
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Monospace font bug? |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:32:28 -0400 |
I need some help to track down what may or may not be a distribution
bug.
When compiled with XFT, Emacs tries a default font named "monospace-12".
In Fontconfig, this is usually aliased to a font like DejaVu Sans Mono.
But some systems (Debian unstable?) seem to have a font actually named
Monospace, and Emacs then uses this font. This font is somehow buggy:
in bug#505, the X server can't retrieve the font information, and in
bug#1219 it displays in a very fugly manner.
I don't know whether is is a distribution bug, or a common situation
that we need to cope with.
Could those of you running on GNU/Linux please try to do
~ $ xlsfonts *monospace*
And see if anything is returned? For me, this gives
xlsfonts: pattern "*monospace*" unmatched
but the people who've encountered problems do see fonts like
-unknown-monospace-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
In bug#505, this font was registered in
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/fonts.dir
but there's no clue about where it came from.