When loading a bdf or a pcf font, specifically unifont in my case, the
width of characters is incorrect.

To reproduce:
Download the bdf.gz file from the unifont website at
http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
Change the extension to .bdf
Install the font. In my case, I needed to copy it to
~/.local/share/fonts/misc/
Run fc-cache -fv in the terminal.
Start emacs.
From the menu bar, choose options -> select default font.
Search for and choose Unifont Sans Serif size 12 (size should go to 12
anyways).

The unexpected result is that each character is rendered with a full width,
as if there is a space after it. The cursor becomes square instead of a
half-width rectangle.

Additionally, note that this does NOT occur with the ttf version of
unifont. Nor does this bug occur when I use the bdf unifont inside the
gnome terminal.

In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
 of 2018-05-29 built on lcy01-amd64-029
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12001000
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