skype after f7->f8: problem with cyrillic characters in nicks

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> (from Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:14:53 +0300):

> on 16/06/2009 00:00 Boris Samorodov said the following:
>> Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> writes:
>>> on 15/06/2009 18:26 Chagin Dmitry said the following:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 05:50:17PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>
>>>>> I upgraded my linux_base from f7 to f8 and then reinstalled  
>>>>> skype and now I see
>>>>> "block characters" instead of cyrillic characters in nick names.
>>>>> Any idea what's wrong / how to fix?
>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-May/006015.html
>>> Dmitry,
>>>
>>> thank you, but:
>>> $ fgrep -c cache /var/db/pkg/linux-f8-fontconfig-2.4.2_1/+CONTENTS
>>>
>>>
>>> Does linux fc-cache come with some other port?
>>
>> Take a look at the port's Makefile. This file is removed at post-patch
>> stage.
>
> There seems to be some contradiction.
> Your post in the link says that this program is needed to do/fix something.
> The Makefile says that this program is never needed and can be dangerous.
> Of course, I am able to extract and run the program, it's no problem for me.
> But I think that the contradiction needs to be cleared for the  
> benefit of other users.

Technical info:
The problem you are seeing is probably because there are  
incompatibilities in the font cache files (which are created by  
fc-cache) between the FreeBSD native libfreetype and the linux  
libfreetype. The fonts which both are trying to access are the FreeBSD  
ones (we do not install them a second time for the linuxulator, we use  
the ones which are already there in FreeBSD).

If you run the linux fc-cache, you may cause problems for the FreeBSD  
native libfreetype. This is the reason why the Makefile says what it  
says.

What we need is a libfreetype for FreeBSD and for the linuxulator,  
which shares the same font cache format. The older the linux base  
port, the less the probability to find a suitable libfreetype for this  
linux base.

Bye,
Alexander.

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