Fixed [Misc] font doesn't render Unicode characters correctly

[Simon Perreault]

In Konsole, for instance, choose the "Fixed [Misc]" font from the Settings menu. You may have to do a "dpkg-reconfigure -plow fontconfig" and enable bitmapped fonts so that this font appears in the list. Using a UTF-8-enabled locale (my $LANG is "en_CA.UTF-8"), do a "man gcc", for example. You will see that many characters render as dotted squares. Look at the dashes at the end of lines for example.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

Hi Simon,

Can you replicate the same problem using uxterm instead of konsole?

Thanks.

[Simon Perreault (nomis80)]

No, but uxterm doesn't seem to use Unicode even though my LANG is the same. For example, in the gcc manpage, quotes that are shown as squares in Konsole get transformed to plain ASCII. See for example the second line after DESCRIPTION: ‘‘overall options’’

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

Those are rendered as U+0060 and U+0027 respectively, as they
should be.

This looks to be a konsole bug.

[Simon Perreault (nomis80)]

Well in that case there should be two squares on either end of "overall options" in Konsole, but there is only one. Also, Konsole on Fedora Core doesn't have this bug so I doubt this is a Konsole bug, even a packaging one.

[era (era)]

The fonts used by UXterm are defined in /etc/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm

[Simon Perreault (nomis80)]

It seems to be fixed in 7.10. Yay!

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Closing as Fix Released based on the original reporter's last comment.
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