Bug 1260

Summary: Wrong glyph for lowercase greek pi with -fa <font>
Product: xorg Reporter: Alexandros Diamantidis <adia>
Component: App/xtermAssignee: Jim Gettys <jg>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: dickey, steve, vvasaitis
Version: 6.7.0   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Screenshot of xterms displaying various fonts none

Description Alexandros Diamantidis 2004-08-31 14:20:00 UTC 
When setting the xterm font with "xterm -fa <font>", the glyph for lowercase
greek pi (U+03C0) seems to be taken from another font, and appears the same
regardless of the font selected.

The problem appears (at least) with:

X.org 6.7.0, XTerm 196, fontconfig 2.2.3, libXft 2.1.2
and
XFree86 4.3.0, XTerm 190, fontconfig 2.2.3
Comment 1 Alexandros Diamantidis 2004-08-31 14:30:04 UTC 
Created attachment 796 [details]
Screenshot of xterms displaying various fonts
Comment 2 Steve Stavropoulos 2004-09-01 04:53:31 UTC 
This doesn't seem like a xterm bug, as it also happens in gnome-terminal and
various other apps. But who is to blame? Freetype?
Comment 3 Thomas Dickey 2004-11-23 06:25:45 UTC 
no, it's an xterm bug.  It appears in gnome-terminal because
gnome-terminal (and other apps) copy from xterm (usually
without noting this in the change log).  It'll be fixed in
this week's changes for xterm, e.g., patch #197

(I am making the fix now).
Comment 4 Thomas Dickey 2004-11-30 18:01:46 UTC 
This is fixed in xterm patch #197.
Comment 5 Alan Coopersmith 2005-03-20 09:21:58 UTC 
Closing as fixed since Xorg 6.8.2 includes xterm patch #197.

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