Hi all, I have a deep misunderstanding of fonts and encodings, so this may be garbled, but here goes:
I have a bug report (109488) about certain text widgets (gtk) being garbled. The questioner believes that this is due to certain fonts being requested without giving an encoding preference (just "-*-"), and a 16 bit font being returned where the client program is expecting an 8 bit font. I also see a similar program in some other gtk programs: e.g. Galeon, at some font sizes only, and Pan. Is the diagnosis correct? Is it worth trying to fix 'centrally' (e.g. by ensuring that requests with unspecified encoding always return an 8-bit encoding of some kind), or should it be a bug filed against each application? Confused experiments with a gtk font selection dialog suggest that there is no longer an 8-bit encoding of fixed(misc)? Although there's clearly something I don't understand, because I asked the dialog to only show me iso8859-1, and it still gave me some 2-byte ones. Any illumination, including pointers to discussions of this issue, welcomed. Jules