Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xpdf - missing fonts

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:40:04PM -0700, Joseph wrote
> On 01/06/12 13:51, walt wrote:
> >
> >Try turning the NLS useflag on for your installed font packages that use
> >NLS.  Not all font packages use NLS, dunno why.  To see which installed
> >fonts use NLS:
> >
> >#eix -IU nls | grep fonts
>
> Aparenlty none of them:
>
> eix -IU nls | grep fonts
> [I] media-fonts/font-misc-misc
>       Description:         X.Org miscellaneous fonts

  I have a suggestion that goes in the opposite direction.  It's part of
bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368335

  For some reason, the default is now to generate Unicode encoding only
(I believe it's iso10646), not iso8859-1 or any of the other local
encodings.  I ran into this when xfreecell refused to start, due to
missing a specific iso8859-1 font.  The bug can be worked around by
editing the file /usr/portage/eclass/xorg-2.eclass  I'm attaching my
edited version.

* Rename your current /usr/portage/eclass/xorg-2.eclass
* substitute the version attached to this post
* re-emerge all your fonts

  ***NOTE*** This eclass file tries to produce iso8859-1 only.  Modify
it if you want other iso code files.

  File attached...

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>