devanagari isn't working #2

[Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com>]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:12:07PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> i have an application that uses pango to display devanagari.  It works on
> two of my machines.  However, another machine isn't working.  Maybe i forgot
> all the steps to make it work?
>
> 1. i set the locale to en_US.utf8 using dpkg-reconfigure locales (/etc/locale.gen).
>
> 2. Add the pango fonts to the font path.
>
> joshua remix:~$ ls /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/
> dev-14.bdf  dev-18.bdf  dev-24.bdf  fonts.dir    raghu.ttf
> dev-14.pcf  dev-18.pcf  dev-24.pcf  fonts.scale
>
> joshua remix:~$ xset q
> Font Path:
>   
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/
>
> joshua remix:~$ xlsfonts |grep dev
> -sibal-devanagari-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso10646-dev
> -sibal-devanagari-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p--iso10646-dev
> -sibal-devanagari-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p--iso10646-dev
> -sibal-devanagari-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p--iso10646-dev
>
> 3. Run my app with the language set to mr.
>
>   LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE=mr redael
>
> On two of my machines, this gives nice marathi glyphs.  However, the other machine
> just displays lots of squares, as if the glyphs are not available.  What else
> can i check?

Here are the versions of the debian packages:

libgtk2.0-0      2.0.2-2
libpango1.0-0    1.0.1-2
libglib2.0-0     2.0.1-1
libfreetype6     2.0.9-1
xserver-xfree86  4.1.0-14

Linux remix.joy.eth.net 2.4.18 #1 Sun Apr 7 10:02:49 IST 2002 i686 unknown

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