Bug 174614
| Summary: | emacs should require xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-{75,100}dpi | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Alexandre Oliva <oliva> |
| Component: | emacs | Assignee: | Jens Petersen <petersen> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5 | CC: | h1k6zn2m, notting, orion |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-01-09 18:47:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 174416 | ||
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Description
Alexandre Oliva
2005-11-30 18:29:04 UTC
*** Bug 174656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Just xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi is sufficient, or are both fonts required? [AFAIK emacs isn't good at unicode fonts.] Does emacs still require xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi? [Sorry I can't test this right now, since rawhide isn't installing for me currently.] Yes, it's still requiring xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi. I don't know whether it should be requiring ISO8859-1-75dpi instead of or in addition to the other package. I suspect that just 75dpi is sufficient, i.e., it probably isn't necessary to require both the 75dpi and 100dpi packages, but I haven't tested that theory. Ok seems the iso8859-1 encoded fonts were separated out. Thanks for the report - should be fixed in 21.4-11. Confirmed fixed; only 75dpi fonts are required, I hope that's good enough. Right, I'm not very sure about 75dpi vs 100dpi these days. Are 75dpi an anacronism now or does it really make any difference for apps like Emacs say? Would it make more sense to install both? XEmacs is requiring both. Ok, I tested with 100dpi instead of 75dpi and IMO the default window with 100dpi is too big, so I think just 75dpi is good enough and sufficient. Those who want the higher quality large 100dpi display can install the 100dpi font and reorder the xfs font path. It seems like this has snuck back in:
> emacs
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"
to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
And the characters show up as boxes.
# rpm -qa *font* | sort
bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.1
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-5.1
chkfontpath-1.10.0-4.1
fontconfig-2.3.93-2
fontconfig-2.3.93-2
fonts-japanese-0.20050222-11.1
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-13.1
libfontenc-1.0.0-1
libfontenc-1.0.0-1
libXfont-1.0.0-1
libXfontcache-1.0.0-1
mathml-fonts-1.0-20.fc5
msttcorefonts-1.3-4
tetex-fonts-3.0-13
urw-fonts-2.3-6.1
xorg-x11-fonts-base-1.0.0-1
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-1.0.0-1
xorg-x11-font-utils-1.0.0-1
# xlsfonts | grep courier-medium
# xlsfonts | grep helvetica-medium
#
I can confirm this. I get the 'cannot convert' errors and characters show up as empty boxes. I have both 75dpi and 100dpi RPMS installed and tried both 'en_US' and 'en_US.UTF-8' for LANG. I believe this is because bug 174416 hasn't been fixed yet. Why does this need the iso8859-1 fonts,in any case - it's not like we're running in that locale,in general. Because that is the font that emacs uses by default irrespective of the locale. |