[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/PROBLEMS

[Jan Djärv]

Index: emacs/etc/PROBLEMS
diff -c emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.158 emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.159
*** emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.158    Fri Sep 12 15:44:31 2003
--- emacs/etc/PROBLEMS  Fri Oct 24 05:27:50 2003
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  This file describes various problems that have been encountered
  in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs.
  
+ * Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X.
+ 
+ This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used.
+ For example, XFree86 4.3.0 has one version and Gnome usually comes
+ with a newer version.  Emacs compiled with --with-gtk will then use
+ the newer version.  In most cases the problem can be temporarily
+ fixed by stopping the application that has the error (it can be
+ Emacs or any other application), removing ~/.fonts.cache-1,
+ and then start the application again.
+ If removing ~/.fonts.cache-1 and restarting doesn't help, the
+ application with problem must be recompiled with the same version
+ of FontConfig as the rest of the system uses.  For KDE, it is
+ sufficient to recompile Qt.
+ 
  * Process output truncated on Mac OS X (Carbon) when using pty's.
  
  There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the