From: Jan Djärv Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:27:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/1%29.2+1-2+rpi1~1^2~25126 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:///%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=548122a9952868ec2afc7e43fe18f38da880085e;p=emacs.git * PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X. --- 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 + + * 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 --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