"FreeType: couldn't find encoding 'ascii-0'" after xorg transition

[Ville Herva]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:50:55PM +0300, you [Ville Herva] wrote:
> I just moved to xorg-x11 (thanks to all fedora-test-list members for the
> hints on how to do that painlessly.) I went pretty smoothly.
> 
> I have one problem, though. After the transition, I get these:
> 
>   FreeType: couldn't find encoding 'ascii-0' for '/mnt/msdos/winnt/Fonts/lucon.ttf'
>   FreeType: couldn't find encoding 'ascii-0' for '/mnt/msdos/winnt/Fonts/lucon.ttf'
> 
> And font "lucida console" (a Windows font) no longer works. I've tried
> recreate the font caches (mkfontdir, fc-cache -f, service xfs restart), but
> it doesn't seem to depend on that.
> 
> Any idea what could cause that or how to fix it?

Apart from the /usr/bin/ttmkfdir glitch, antialiased fonts look worse than
they used to with XFree86. Some fonts are not antialiased at all.

Has anyone else experienced this?



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