Re: font/character problems using gnome 2.8.1 on AIX 5.2

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:32 -0700, Sid Kode wrote:
> 
> I installed all the aix binary rpms on the gnome page of
> http://www.bullfreeware.com.  Everything seems to work fine besides
> the fonts...  I have attached a screenshot of my desktop.  Note that
> the xv dialog font shows up correctly.  Anyone know what the cause
> might be? 
> 
> Sid. 
> 

Just some information: GTK+ uses unicode for its text (which I think is
standard on all unices), but the actual font rendering is done via a
library called Pango, which AFAIK relies heavily on Fontconfig2 and and
xtf/FreeType for font rendering.

Are you using X.org's server or an internal aix one? X.org one will just
work wrt Pango, but I have no clue about aix.

I think this might be an aix related problem.

Cheers,
Ryan