On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:01:21PM +1000, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote:
> I then upgraded to XFree86 4.0.3 ( from 3.3.6 ) plus a few other
> packages along the way ( moved from 2.91 to gcc 2.95, binutils to 2.9.5
> ). gtk+ was not updated. Now everytime I run ethereal and capture
> packets, the windows showing the packets captured and the protocol tree
> shows squares instead of readable text.
More fun with fonts.
Try removing, if possible, every single font on your system that has any
2-byte encoding; that may keep Ethereal from finding all those fonts.
For one thing, remove all fonts with "10646" in the font name, if any
exist. (No, I don't know how you'd go about doing that.)
(Basically, GTK+ prior to 2.0 does *NOT* make it particularly easy to
handle multi-byte character sets, or fonts with multi-byte encodings;
the types of strings you hand to various GTK+ routines, i.e. whether
they're single-byte-character or double-byte-character strings, depends
on *the type of font that will be used to draw the strings*, and, as I
remember, that's a royal pain to figure out, if it's possible to figure
out at all.)
