Update to Xorg and font spacing is weirdly double spaced

Mon Aug 30 19:21:42 PDT 2004

This is a charset issue.  Chang is using a non-western charset.  There's 
nothing wrong with your box.

On 08/30/2004 04:00 PM, James McDonald wrote:
> I just downloaded all 6 x.org tar balls and untarred them and without 
> changing the default config files on FC1 I have run make World.
> 
> The compile was successful and I installed them by the following 
> roughish method
> 
> mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6.old
> mv /etc/X11 /etc/X11.old
> 
> make install
> make install.man
> 
> vi /etc/inittab
> # changed from pref dm to xdm by james 20040830
> # x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm
> x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
> 
> touch ~/.xsession
> vi ~/.xsession
> #!/bin/sh
> xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
> exec /usr/bin/startxfce4
> 
> However I now have the behaviour as evidenced by this screen shot ( 
> http://www.jamesmcdonald.id.au/jmcd/firefox.png ) where by the font on 
> the email seems double spaced. The strange thing so far is it's only 
> that one email from Mr Chang.
> 
> Here is the text of the email. I can't see anything that would trigger 
> the behaviour. Does anyone else have any ideas?
> 
> Return-Path: <general-bounces at linux-sxs.org>
> Delivered-To: jamesm at jmcd.dyndns.org
> Received: (qmail 15189 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2004 19:27:03 -0000
> Received: from mxout2.mailhop.org (63.208.196.166)
>  by amd.jmcd.local with SMTP; 30 Aug 2004 19:27:03 -0000
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>     by mxout2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41)
>     id 1C1ro5-0007yk-TN
>     for james at jamesmcdonald.id.au; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:27:14 -0400
> Received: from mail.linux-sxs.org ([207.218.156.196])
>     by mx1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20)
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>     for james at jamesmcdonald.id.au; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:27:09 -0400
> Received: from mail.linux-sxs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
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> i7UJFMuQ017977;
>     Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:17:30 -0500
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>     for <general at linux-sxs.org>; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:24:15 +0800
> Message-ID: <41337ED8.1070804 at i-cable.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:24:08 +0800
> From: "M.W. Chang" <mwchang at i-cable.com>
> Organization: Linux at Home
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
>     rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040804
> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: Non-linux and other off-topic discussion <general at linux-sxs.org>
> References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408300748470.14156 at mail.linux-sxs.org>
> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408300748470.14156 at mail.linux-sxs.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Big5-HKSCS
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75-1, clamav-milter version 0.75c
>     on mail
> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.74, clamav-milter version 0.74a
>     on server.donkeyware.org
> X-Virus-Status: Clean
> X-Virus-Status: Clean
> X-Scanned-By: milter-sender/0.60.818 (localhost [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 30 
> Aug 2004 14:17:32 -0500
> X-Scanned-By: milter-sender/0.60.818 (mail.linux-sxs.org 
> [207.218.156.196]);
>     Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:14:59 -0500
> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-98.4 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL,
>     RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=2.64
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on 
> mail.linux-sxs.org
> Subject: Re: 6 GMail invites up for grabs
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> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> First 6 people to email me get one.
>>
> don't use gmail. :)
> 

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