[gentoo-user] X font problem

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

Hi all,

when I play around with Desktop > Preferences > Font in Gnome, I get
some strange behaviour.

Many fonts I select come up with strange characters for tabs, followed
by the real tab space.  For example
	<-- here I see a funny character, then the "<" about 2cm away.

The funny character can be:
courier           light dotted square
courier-new       square
terminal          filled in rectangle
lucida-typewriter light dotted square

I also saw an 'a' for one font.

This isn't just fixed with fonts either.  I have a whole host of fonts
installed, and for some I see the character, some I don't.

But then some, like courier 10 Pitch, appear fine.

I checked my xorg logs, and I can't see any helpful messages - no font
issues at least.

What now?  This is a bit ugly and annoying obviously!  What can I look
at next to see where the problem is coming from?

TIA,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them WHAT to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
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