Bug 17757 - Conflicting `fonts.alias' file
Summary: Conflicting `fonts.alias' file
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86-ISO8859-9
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
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Reported: 2000-09-20 23:06 UTC by Enrico Scholz
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-17 13:07:31 UTC
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Description Enrico Scholz 2000-09-20 23:06:09 UTC 
When installing XFree86-ISO8859-9-2.1.2-13 a file
/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-1/misc/fonts.alias will be created.  In this file
there are entries like

| fixed       
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-9

conflicting with the original XFree86 fonts (in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc).

So you will get multiple entries for font `fixed'. When using `xterm' this
identifier will be used to determine various fonts and you will get
probably the wrong one (I have seen it at umlauts).


I suggest to remove such duplicate aliases or to comment them out in the
*ISO* packages. ISO8859-2 and ISO8859-7 seems to be ok; but KOI8-R has the
problem too.
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