Bug 454232

Summary:	xterm should require xorg-x11-fonts-misc
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	comps	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Jens Petersen 2008-07-07 03:34:27 UTC

Description of problem:
Since we no longer install xorg-x11-fonts-* by default xterm does have much
coverage of non-ascii now.  I suggest making it require xorg-x11-fonts-misc
which should help with that.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run xterm on Japanese desktop
2. run "date" in xterm shell

Actual results:
1. warning appears:
"Warning: Cannot convert string \"nil2\" to type FontStruct"
2. empty spaces in place of Japanese characters in date

Expected results:
1. no warning
2. Japanese date to be displayed

Additional info:
Installing xorg-x11-fonts-misc solves the above problems.

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-07-08 15:35:04 UTC

I'm not sure that adding to xterm a dependency on a particular font is a good
idea. Maybe it would be better to add it to the Japanese support (and other
supported languages) in comps?

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2008-07-08 18:06:01 UTC

*cough* Use a terminal that supports a real font library.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2008-07-08 18:07:08 UTC

Because, even if we add a requirement for -misc, that might catch some japanese,
but what about chinese? Thai? Arabic? etc.

We don't add requirements for fontconfig-using apps on specific language fonts,
so I'm not sure why xterm would require one.

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2008-07-08 23:39:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Because, even if we add a requirement for -misc, that might catch some japanese,
> but what about chinese? Thai? Arabic? etc.

Shrug, it would at least cover CJK.

> We don't add requirements for fontconfig-using apps on specific language fonts,
> so I'm not sure why xterm would require one.

True.  We used to install xorg-x11-fonts-misc by default...

(In reply to comment #2)
> *cough* Use a terminal that supports a real font library.

Maybe the question then is why are we installing xterm by default.

Shall I make it optional in comps?  Maybe that makes more sense: though
sometimes it is handy
to have xterm around for "emergencies".

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2008-07-08 23:44:36 UTC

(It also purports to support Indic and Arabic...)

Or maybe we just need the GNU unifont.  Well there are various options. :)

Comment 6 Tony Fu 2008-09-10 03:09:37 UTC

requested by Jens Petersen (#27995)

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2008-09-10 23:22:31 UTC

Made optional.