Check your locale settings, make sure you are still using en_US, there
have been some big changes to the locales in Woody recently-ish.
Also, check that your X config hasn't changed with regards to your
fonts. Are you using any true-type fonts? If so, make sure the freetype
module is being loaded.
A great place for this post would be the debian-user mailling list, it
has tons of traffic and it's more than likely that this has been
encountered before.
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 18:01, Nathan Saper wrote:
> After a recent "apt-get dist-upgrade," some GTK applications began
> displaying rectangles instead of text. I haven't been able to find the
> cause of it; I didn't uninstall any fonts, and only GTK applications are
> affected. I have GTK 1.2 installed.
>
> Here's a screenshot of the newsreader Pan, illustrating the font problem
> I'm
> talking about:
>
> http://www.well.com/user/natedog/gtkshot.jpg
>
> Any ideas?
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