2007-02-04 12:35 UTC
Font display problems
In an UTF-8 locale, Ion displays some characters incorrectly.
The particular effect you're referring to, is likely not an Ion bug. Ion doesn't display the characters, and does very little mangling too.1 The effect is more likely an X(lib) bug. For some reason, with some fonts, X(lib) decides to substitute certain characters with multiple characters, that do not even appear to depict the original (e.g. two parentheses are seen often). So, file the bug to X.org, and make them fix their broken code. (They might not bother: the trend seems to be to force everyone to use Xft shite and blurred fonts.)