Re: Odd font display problem on AIX 5.2/5.3 with _same_ fonts

[Iago Rubio <iago iagorubio com>]

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 00:04 -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> [Originally posted in October but no response so reposting]
>
> I'm having an odd font display problem with GTK+ 2.6.8 on AIX 5.3. I
> made sure both the AIX 5.2 and 5.3 systems had access to the _same_
> fonts. The ~/.fonts.cache-1 file generated on each system is the same.
> I'm testing with the GTK+ demo program. Images of the initial window
> is available from:
>   ftp://support.thewrittenword.com/outgoing/gtk/aix52.png
>   ftp://support.thewrittenword.com/outgoing/gtk/aix53.png
>
> Why should the display be different if both systems have access to the
> same fonts?

No idea, but from your screenshoots It looks the font set you're using
does not support U+0020 character - white space.

Furthermore, that both systems have the same ~/.fonts.cache-1 does not
mean that are using the same font, and in this case it's sure they're
not using the same font.

Take a look at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf - if it exists in AIX - and ensure
they're using a font with u+0020 support such as Bitstream Vera as
default.
-- 
Iago Rubio