emacs character/glyph problem

emacs character/glyph problem

[rpm13]

My emacs is not showing any normal (ASCII) characters but only rectangles.
The startup message comes normally but anything else I type or which emacs
displays in the echo area is only rectangles!!

Whether this happened when I upgraded from ubuntu dapper to edgy or due to
something else I am not sure.

Any clues what I can correct??
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Re: emacs character/glyph problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.12.2006 um 14:27 schrieb rpm13:

> Any clues what I can correct??

Search for this in the eMail archives. It's a debian problem with  
uncommon places to install fonts in. I wonder why these debian based  
or derived Linux distributions can't handle their stuff properly ...

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Re: emacs character/glyph problem

[rpm13]

Thanks!

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> 
> Search for this in the eMail archives. It's a debian problem with  
> uncommon places to install fonts in. I wonder why these debian based  
> or derived Linux distributions can't handle their stuff properly ...
> 
> 

The relevant link on the ubuntu forums is 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=285304 Ubuntu forums emacs/X link 
Giving it here because others too are having this problem.  Its hard to
believe that we are in an age when *nix can can be shipped without X windows
and emacs configured properly

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Re: emacs character/glyph problem

[Tim X]

rpm13 <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks!
>
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Search for this in the eMail archives. It's a debian problem with  
>> uncommon places to install fonts in. I wonder why these debian based  
>> or derived Linux distributions can't handle their stuff properly ...
>> 
>> 
>
> The relevant link on the ubuntu forums is 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=285304 Ubuntu forums emacs/X link 
> Giving it here because others too are having this problem.  Its hard to
> believe that we are in an age when *nix can can be shipped without X windows
> and emacs configured properly
>

I think this was specific to ubuntu. I've certainly had no problems
with Debian Testing. I also thought it was a problem with a
pre-release version of ubuntu and not an "official" release, in which
case minor glitches like this are to be expected. 

Tim


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