Charset problem in Terminal

[Benedikt Meurer]

James Tappin wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:19:05 +0100
> Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>James Tappin wrote:
>>
>>>When I define "Terminal" as the TERMCMD in xffm and then use it to
>>>launch a terminal in a directory, I get a wierd charset (see attached
>>>screenshot). If I use other terminals e.g. gnome-terminal or a plain
>>>xterm there is no problem and Terminal works correctly when launched
>>>from the panel or the command line.
>>
>>So, it only happens if you run Terminal from xffm?
>>
> 
> 
> I've now managed a more thorough investigation, and it appears that there
> are 3 fonts which suffer from this problem "Monospace", "Sans" and "Serif"
> (there may be some of the more obscure ones as well but of the mainstream
> fonts that I've checked, those are the affected ones.
> 
> Of the various terminal emulators where abitrary fonts can be easily
> selected: Terminal, xfce4-terminal and gnome-terminal are affected,
> konsole is not.

Hm, looks like a fontconfig problem then. All three mentioned font names 
are aliases for other fonts. Please check your config.

> James

Benedikt