#724493 dzen2 lacks fallback font support (regression)

Package:
dzen2
Source:
dzen2
Description:
General-purpose messaging and notification program for X11
Submitter:
"Guillermo O. Freschi"
Date:
2013-09-24 09:33:06 UTC
Severity:
important
#724493#5
Date:
2013-09-24 09:28:56 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,
dzen2 0.8.5 used to support font fallback by listing several comma-separated
fonts (I use terminus with fallback to ms-gothic for japanese).

Trying to specify multiple fonts now leads to a default font being
chosen.

To replicate, try:

dzen2 -fn "-*-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*,-*-ms
gothic-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

(or another font available to the mantainer) and inputting japanese
characters.

The behavior in 0.8.5 is as expected: characters are shown properly in
the corresponding fonts whether ascii or japanese.

The behavior in 0.9.5 shows a default font and "missing character"
unicode squares for japanese characters.