From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) Description of problem: The arioso font is the default for kate and kedit in RH 7.2. This is a cursive, proportional font, and is generally unreadable for editing text files. It may be that the intended font is just missing, and 'arioso' is being picked because it's the first in the alphabet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install redhat 7.2 2. Open a file with 'kate' (or kedit) 3. Additional info:
same problem here i had to change the default fonts to courier to fix the problem.
*** Bug 55603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
it's not reproduceable in RHEL3 and FC2 current release.