From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 13:42:10 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Tell people how to remove fontconfig customizations
X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.1.91~21
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=97747e6fb9890ef528cbe21636cc99508efeba2b;p=emacs.git

Tell people how to remove fontconfig customizations
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 7499726678e..cfca598d608 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -693,6 +693,11 @@ versions of gnutls-cli, or use Emacs's built-in gnutls support.
 
 ** Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X.
 
+*** This may be due to your local fontconfig customization.
+Try removing or moving aside "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/conf.d" and
+"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf"
+($XDG_CONFIG_HOME is treated as "~/.config" if not set)
+
 *** This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used.
 For example, XFree86 4.3.0 has one version and Gnome usually comes
 with a newer version.  Emacs compiled with Gtk+ will then use the