Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 109158
Squares instead Russian letters in many Gtk-1.2 applications
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:33 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: In many Gtk-1.2 applications (Gimp, xmms etc), I see squares instead Russian letters. This because, XFree has incorrect fonts, without Russian glyphs. This old problem begin from Red Hat 8.0. It is possible to fix it, if make thease steps: 1. Get right fonts from ftp://ftp.asplinux.ru/pub/fonts/XFree86-iso10646cyr-fonts.tar.bz2 2. There are .bdf files in this archive. I make pcf.gz from it via bdftopcf utility 3. Put .pcf.gz fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi directory with replace old fonts. 4. Run mkfontdir in this directory 5. Restart X Font Server (xfs) After thease steps, all is OK. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the system with default Russian language 2. Run xmms 3. Click right button in xmms window Actual Results: Squares in menu instead Russian letters Expected Results: Russian letters in menu Additional info:
Please, Can you post here the command line for bdftopcf ?
Fedora Core no longer has XFree86 as the X11 implementation, we have switched to X.Org X11. The fonts included with X.Org and XFree86 are not "open source" fonts, and do not permit modification and redistribution. We ship what comes with the X11 implementation and can not modify these fonts. The fonts at the URL you provided, at a first glance seem to possibly be illegally modified versions of fonts included with X.Org. Please contact X.Org directly concerning the bad fonts. http://bugs.freedesktop.org "xorg" component.
This problem presents in Fedora Core also. Please, see license information, for example, into courB08.bdf: "...Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notices appear in all copies and that both those copyright notices and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation..." etc Why you think about "illegaly modified", I'm not understand. IHMO, all needed rights is provided. In addition, these fonts is used in ASPLinux distribution already some years.
The majority of fonts in X.Org and XFree86 are not freely modifyable and redistributable. In practice this means nobody but the author can modify them. I wasn't aware any of them at all were under any true OSS license, but if they are indeed under a true OSS license, you can file a bug report at X.Org bugzilla, located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. X.Org will then review the request, and possibly include any new fonts into future releases. Once any new fonts are present in X.Org, they will naturally make their way into future Fedora Core releases.