hello

i finally figured out what's going on. the problem is that the mozilla
and firefox that come with slackware refuse to render non-latin fonts.
if you go to a website like http://anekdot.ru/ all you'll see is squares
with 4 digits in them

the same happens with the gtk2 binary packages from mozilla.org

but gtk1 mozilla/seamonkey packages from mozilla.org work much better.
going to http://wikipedia.org/ only 3 languages refuse to render (as
opposed to 15 with gtk2)

i'm using slackware 10.2, haven't tried slackware current

is there something i could do to fix this problem? and if the solution
is not very straight-forward, what's the best way to ask patrick (or
someone else) to fix it in the distro?

thanks