Re: -urw-* font is always used

[Jan D.]

> Unfortunately, trying to give detailed and reliable report, the 
> problem fixed itself ;-)  In one moment Emacs _always_ showed empty 
> boxes instead of characters, whether or not gsfonts-x11 is installed, 
> and whether or not it's started with "emacs -q".  But after some X 
> restarts, the problem went away :-\

It sounds like an X configuration problem.

> The arabic font is in xfonts-base and has no western characters.  Is it
> possible that there is a case when this font is always used and so all 
> characters are displayed as empty boxes?

Yes, it is possible.

        Jan D.