Description of problem: Greek support is broken. Once Greek is selected for the keyboard mapping, typing in Greek results in blank spaces, no characters are displayed. This does not seem to be related to the windowmanager, since it happens with both Gnome and Kde. Greek fonts are installed under: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/... KDE also includes a i18n rpm package for Greek. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: For KDE: 1. Run the KDE Control Center 2. Select page Peripherals -> Keyboard 3. Enable "keyboard layouts" 4. Add the Greek language (el) 5. Enable writing in Greek via the applet, and type something. Actual Results: No characters show, none at all, just plain spaces. Expected Results: Greek characters should have shown. Additional info: This bug is not specific to a window manager, since it happens in both KDE and Gnome.
Have you installed any greek fonts?
Yes, Greek fonts are installed (find /usr -name "*8859-7*" shows them).
Those are bitmapped fonts, and will only be seen by legacy applications unless you configure your system to provide these bitmapped fonts to Xft based applications as well. You need to install Truetype or Type1 fonts that contain Greek characters in order to have decent Greek fonts in XFree86 in Red Hat Linux 8.0. Bitmap fonts are generally quite ugly, in particular when they're scaled, and as such, bitmap fonts are installed in Red Hat Linux by default with scaling of them disabled. I've carbon copied Owen, in case he'd like to add a comment, however I do not personally consider this an XFree86 bug. It's just a font availability, and configuration issue IMHO. Any comments Owen?
I'd suggest grabbing FreeFont from http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont/ and putting it into your ~/.fonts directory (then run fc-cache ~/.fonts from the command line for a bit of extra efficiency) They aren't great fonts, but they include Greek and should "just work" with the Red Hat 8 font system.