SuSE Linux: Version 7.3
XFree86: Version 3.3.6
Some UNICODE fonts like, for example, -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-iso10646-* are installed on the system. Since the X server arranges the fonts in alphabetical order, it finds first a UNICODE (iso10646) font instead of a more suitable ISO8859 font.
By using XFree86 4.2.0 instead of XFree86 3.3.6., the fonts will no longer be arranged in alphabetical order, but numerically. XFree86 4.2.0 can be downloaded e.g. from the FTP server:
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.2.0-SuSE/There you can also find a README describing the installation. Please refer to the following article from our support database for more information about updates and configuration with SaX2:
"X Server Configuration with SaX2" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_sax2.html)If you want to keep on using XFree86 3.3.6, at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/
you can create a file for each
application (nedit in the example) with the following content:
nedit*fontList: fixed | | V V (application name) (or some other font like -*-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-iso8859-* )
This entry can also be inserted in the file ~/.Xdefaults
in the user's home directory.
We would like to thank Mr. Christian Schmidt-Guetter for providing us with this solution.