https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1567
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-12 00:23 ------- OK, here is the exact things I did to get correct font. - download ucs-font ( http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz ) - JUST untar the package, and copy bdf* into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc - REMOVE the fonts named "cu12..." - mkfontdir - service xfs restart -> now, GIMP and others are no more ugly ! it might be also useful to install: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts-asian.tar.gz http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts-75dpi100dpi.tar.gz notes : --- One thing I don't understand is that these public domain fonts are normally included in Xfree86. But I suspect they are first converted to iso8859-x with the provided perl script, although we need here unicode fonts. They must be installed AS IS !! --- The second thing is I don't exactly understand why X chooses cu12 when utf8 is set. But removing it fixes the problem. There should be another way to do that, because cu12 might be used in some case ....? --- Now, if someone could add antialiasing, everything would be perfect. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: - Set the system in UTF8 mode (with localedrake) - try to run any gtk1.2 application like: gimp, evolution, grip, screem, gtoaster, gaim, gnucash, etc.... ==> The font used by X is: - very big, and very different from to non-UTF8 mode - ugly - non anti-aliased The problem was exactly the same on 9.0. I'm always running 9.0 in UTF8 now, and I had to change a bit some fonts, so I will provide more information on how to fix that, if I recall what I did. I think it's important because there are very few things to do to have a very good UTF8 support and activate it by default (like in rh8.x).
