Comment 3 for bug 165759

I was just going to file this bug, when I found this bug report.

The problem is that gtkrc defines an explicit Win32 font
instead of using one of the fontconfig fonts as follows:

   gtk-font-name="verdana 9"

I don't understand why the unknown glyphs are not filled in
according to the "sans" font though.

There are two possible ways of solving this bug:

1. Erase the font definition all together from gtkrc

2. Change the font definition to:

    gtk-font-name= "sans 9"

If, for whatever unknown reason, you explicitely want
"verdana" for sans, then the proper place is to declare it
in the

     .../inkscape/etc/fonts.conf

file, or in local.conf in the same directory.

It has been verified that this solution solves the boxes for
Hebrew problem in the GtkEntry and GtkTextViewer.

Of course, I don't understand why inkscape must include its
own gtk tree, instead of just relying on the same gtk
installation as e.g. gimp...