In times past, occasionally an application would encounter an error condition on opening the app. The error condition could be kept in a file in the users home directory. All attempts to get the app started would fail until the error file was deleted.
I don't know if that is what is happening with pango, BUT, on examining mine, I see in the <itemData> section a reference to Error. So, pango could be keeping an error file somewhere which doesn't allow you to get past it to see if your reinstallations have done any good.
In a terminal, run locate pango.xml. If it exists it should be somewhere in your home directory. Delete it. Also delete ~/.pangorc. A new one of each will be written the next time you use pango.
The only other thing that I can think of that may contribute to the problem is the use of Latin-1, which is used for the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch,
English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian,
Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish, Spanish, and Swedish.
If the language you want to display is not one of those, you need to use a different font set.
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Also don't know what the last line means:
Quote: Then run 'strings' on fccfg.o and make sure /etc/fonts is present in the
object file.
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fccfg.o is an object file (binary) which you can't read in a file viewer. The strings utility can give you a look inside the binary for strings of text.
example: in a terminal, run strings fccfg.o