Freetype update broke bitmap fonts

[Wouter-Lemoine]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.10.0/ - FreeType now uses the `defaultChar' property of PCF fonts to set the glyph for the undefined character at glyph index 0 (as FreeType already does for all other supported font formats). As a consequence, the order of glyphs of a PCF font if accessed with FreeType can be different now compared to previous versions.

[DarkDefender]

I can confirm, I'm getting strange charaters instead of space with freetype 2.10:

[OrdinaryMagician]

oh, I noticed this too, was very confused

[Brottweiler]

I am using st and Tewi fonts work, but they make st perform really slow, and when resizing it takes several seconds to rerender everything. ~~I can't even get Tewi to work in Termite at all~~ actually they work in Termite as well, but there's weird missing symbols and stuff is stretched out...

[lucy]

Using the raw bdfs should work. I don't have a linux install to figure this out on currently.

[diffficult]

pango 1.44.1-1 dropped support for bitmap fonts, your best bet right now if you want to stick with them is to downgrade to 1.43.0-2 and add pango to your ignored packages list.

There is an issue already opened and there are good posts on how to generate your own .ttf version but it would be nice to get an official version made by @lucy

[OrdinaryMagician]

Well this is just ridiculous then.

[DarkDefender]

It seems like .otb fonts are still supported in the new pango: https://github.com/NerdyPepper/curie/issues/12

So it would just be a matter of converting the bdf files to otb

[ghost]

+1 with having an official conversion to OTB. I still cannot find a similar font to tewi that is supported by pango and isn't broken.