Fedora 11 has a shiny new feature, where if text is trying to be displayed in a language for which you have no font, a dialog is helpfully popped up along the lines of “gnome-terminal needs a hindi font, would you like to install one?”

Sounds really useful, but it gets irritating really quickly when you read email in a terminal and you get a lot of spam, so every few emails asks for a new font.

What really amused me though, was seeing someones /quit msg in irssi today.

“Leaving(पुन्हा भेटू)”

I’ve no idea what that says, but it caused a popup. Great, a new way to irritate the hell out of someone on irc!

update:
Apparently, this..

gconftool-2 –type bool -s /apps/gnome-packagekit/enable_font_helper false

will disable this feature.

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