19 Dec 2002 movement   » (Master)

Been desperately trying to get Red Hat 8.0 to work properly with fonts. I was under the impression that using .UTF8 locales, stuff should just work. Alas, it's not the case :

  • Cannot compose with en_GB.UTF8 in konsole at all (acknowledged in bugzilla)
  • Cannot compose Latin L with accent in gnome-terminal
  • Cyrillic_a is invisible in gnome-terminal, mis displayed in konsole (with LANG=ru_RU, it's completely wrong too)

and a host of more minor problems. It looks like this stuff wasn't very well tested, a pity. Still, it's a big step forward to ship with this stuff. Hopefully when it's not a .0 release, things will work :)

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