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Subject: Re: skype with garbled characters
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On Thursday 20 September 2007 13:28:54 Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>       I am not able to use skype with FreeBSD 6.2.
>
>       It installs fine after a CVSup of the ports tree.
>
>       But whenever I try to run it, I get a screen like this.
>
>       http://koushikn.fastmail.fm/skype.png
>
>       All my efforts at resolving failed.

Looks like you're missing some fonts or the font doesn't support your 
character set or your fontpath is incomplete. I'd start with the fontpath 
myself. Check your xorg.conf.

-- 
Mel