Segment Missing in Panel Clock LCD Display

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, John Marshall wrote:

> - FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE i386
> - Xfce4 (latest from ports)
> - Xfce4-panel 4.8.6
>
> With the rebuilds required by the recent pcre library update I decided I
> might as well upgrade FreeBSD and rebuild ports. Since then I've been
> fooled not a few times by the clock display.
>
> I include the clock in my panel and I have it set to the LCD display
> layout. Since the recent rebuild (on three systems) the middle segment
> is missing on the 8, so that the 8 displays as a 0. The middle segment
> on the 6 is very thin. The middle segment displays fine in all other
> cases (2, 3, 4, 5, 9).
>
> I'm seeing this on three similarly configured systems.

Just checked, and it also happens on 8-stable.  Digital is fine, but LCD 
has exactly the problem described.  Changing panel height does not fix 
it.  Could be a font library thing, or maybe the LCD option renders its 
own graphic output without a font.