Re: UTF-8 breakage

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> That indicates a missing font for the character.  Try
>>
>> apt-get install `apt-cache search font|grep ^xfonts|awk '{print
>> $1}'|sort|uniq|grep -v xfonts-bochs`
>>
>> or something to that effect.
>
> Since I'm a non-Debian user, I'm not sure what the analog to "apt-get"
> and "apt-cache" would be for me (RedHat 8.0).  [ ... ]
>
> Fair enough, but are there any fonts in particular that I should have?
> At the moment, it will probably be easier for me to locate specific
> fonts than to do the kind of global search-and-installation that you
> suggested.
>
> Of course, I could always just switch to Debian :) ...

Well, just to bring this issue to conclusion, I want to report that I
finally bit the bullet and switched to debian.  I then ran the command
above (or something very similar, actually), and the problem I mentioned
indeed went away.

And now that I'm debian-ized, I'm finding it a to be lot easier to keep
my system in a self-consistent state.  I heartily recommend this to
other non-debian linux users.

Thanks for your suggestion.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com