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<h4 class="subsection">1.4.6 Problems with fonts</h4>
<p>Why do the characters get changed to asterisks (’*’)?
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<p>The problem you are getting come from the fact that the xlib backend
(when not using Xft) will only use one fixed X font for a given
font name. If the font "helvetica" is used inside of GNUstep the
one selected X font, in your case
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal–12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" is used. So
only characters (or glyphs) that are available in that font can be
displayed. The selection of which font name to use happens inside the
font_cacher and is more or less at random (the order fonts are
listed by the X system).
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<p>You can influence the fonts that are available by setting:
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<pre class="example">defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontMask "*iso8859-13"
font_cacher
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<p>(or using a different character set, like iso8859-2). This is really a
bug in GNUstep, but it hasn’t been fixed yet.
</p>
<p>The other option is the use the art backend, which handles fonts much
better. When compiling gnustep-back, start with
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<pre class="example">./configure --enable-graphics=art
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