I am fairly new at this so please bear with me...

I ran some software that requires a special bdf/pcf font under RH until my disk died recently.

I got SuSE 10.2 installed on a new disk and reinstalled my soft+its fonts but now the fonts are no longer rendered properly. The soft reacts properly to keystrokes but the associated character does not appear.

The soft is a session based interpreter using special chars. Most chars are the usual ascii chars but some are not and require a combination of Alt-? to produce them.

xlsfonts lists the fonts and xterm does not complain when I do "xterm -fn myfont ..." but the display only shows a white square when I use one of those keystrokes associated with a special char in the font.

I Googled a bit and found that there is a new way to deal with fonts with the new Linux dists. I looked for Xft but it does not seem to be under SuSE.
I put a copy of my fonts in the folder mentioned in fontconfig but still no.

I have NO idea what I'm doing really since I don't understand the basics and the original soft provider is on life support so no help there... Maybe here?

Thanks for any pointers.

I'm not sure if this is any help, but in my suse 10.2 when I installed truetype fonts, I had to select them, then right click. Under "actions" a ttf installer is listed and I used that.

Maybe you should be more specific about what format your fonts are in in case someone has experience with them.