fonts broken in hoary for old unix apps

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 02:56:41PM -0700, Brian Craft wrote:
> I have no idea what the underlying cause of this is. Since I installed
> Hoary, if I run X apps remotely on a Solaris box some fonts are not
> rendered on my ubuntu X server, typically on buttons and menus.
> 
> These are rather old Xt based apps. Maybe it's some Xt resource thing.
> I dunno.  It always worked fine on Warty. 

This could be a font/charset issue.  Warty used ISO-8859-1 (or
something) by default, while Hoary uses UTF-8 locales.

Do you have any Unicode fonts?  You can run this command to find out

    xlsfonts -fn -*-iso10646-1

You can also try to run those applications in a non-UTF-8 locale:

    LC_CTYPE=C some-old-x-app

I can't tell what your exact problem is, but maybe this will help
somewhat.

Marius Gedminas
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