Comment 13 for bug 174373

I have something not cosmetic at all, with all the gutsy menus'texts as squares, the only place I know that can handle still normal fonts is the terminal.
If I launch gedit from term, it goes on showing 3 Pango-WARNINGs :
"failed to find shape engine" for script = 'latin' and script = 'common', and "pango_cairo_font_get_scaled_font called with bad font."
So I could too expect ugly output.
It happened just after trying to install atk which seemed to be needed by pango, when putting the commands :
"svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/atk/trunk atk"
"cd atk"
"./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr"
might be not exactly fontconfig-related, but still a problem that seemed to have be encountered by some users (more than 3)...