Re: Font display bug? N is t drawn backwards. rdesktop 1.5.0 on Debian etch.

> I'm using rdesktop 1.5.0 (from the Debian 1.5.0-2 package.)
>
> The rest of my Debian installation is 'etch', and I'm using Xorg:
> X Window System Version 7.1.1
> Release Date: 12 May 2006
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
> ...
> (--) Chipset ATI Radeon IGP330M/340M/350M (U2) 4337 found
>
>
> My problem is that some characters appear backwards. For example, N
> and t both appear to be reversed. If I copy and paste (within the
> rdesktop session) one of these letters, the new copy is the correct
> way around.
>
> I've taken a screenshot to try and help explain:
> http://s3.amazonaws.com/zanu.org.uk/font-bug.png
>
> Everything seems normal apart from that. I've tried with various
> rdesktop options such as -4, -5 and without -z, and with -b. Colour
> depth (-a) also makes no difference.
>
> Has this been seen before? I found a report from 2000,
> http://www.rdesktop.org/archive/2000/msg00050.html but those letters
> are missing, not backwards.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick

I don't think there was any reply to this message? I have just now got
the same problem after Ubuntu Hardy updated from the stable rdesktop to
a cvs-version a few days ago.

My current rdesktop is: 1.5.0-3+cvs20071006

I have added this on Launchpad with LP ID #186994.

Rgds,

Thomas



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