Created attachment 6139 [details]
screenshots showing the bug

That screenshot doesn't look like DejaVu Mono: the shape of the "l" is wrong 
(should have serif on top and curve at bottom) and "0" should have a dot in it

then something weird is going on I selected dejaVu-mono instead of monospace in
the gnome-font dialog after installing dejavu-fonts and
dejavu-fonts-experimental from fedora extras.

Created attachment 6140 [details]
screenshot 2

The monospace font in the font settings should be "Monospace".

"Monospace" is a virtual font (similar to "Sans" and "Serif").
Did you change yourself to DejaVu Sans Mono Book?
This should not make a big change, it's good to know anyway.

Also, what is the settings in GNOME Terminal, Edit/Current Profile/Font?

(In reply to comment #5)
> The monospace font in the font settings should be "Monospace".
> 
> "Monospace" is a virtual font (similar to "Sans" and "Serif").
> Did you change yourself to DejaVu Sans Mono Book?
> This should not make a big change, it's good to know anyway.
> 
yes; else it uses the FC5 default font
> Also, what is the settings in GNOME Terminal, Edit/Current Profile/Font?
there is no font tab

Created attachment 6143 [details]
fonts after X restart

it seems to work fine after restarting X

(In reply to comment #7)
> Created an attachment (id=6143) [edit]
> fonts after X restart
> 
> it seems to work fine after restarting X

There are some cases that when you try several fonts in the Font Preferences,
fontconfig/GTK+ (?) gets confused regarding the spacing of the glyphs. This
could also be a related issue.

Could you please post to the fedora mailing list that all are now ok? :)

(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > Created an attachment (id=6143) [edit] [edit]
> > fonts after X restart
> > 
> > it seems to work fine after restarting X
> 
> There are some cases that when you try several fonts in the Font Preferences,
> fontconfig/GTK+ (?) gets confused regarding the spacing of the glyphs. This
> could also be a related issue.
> 
> Could you please post to the fedora mailing list that all are now ok? :)
> 
done ;)

Thanks!

I am closing the bug report as NOT OUR BUG (minor generic font-switching bug in
fontconfig/pango).

reopen

Simos, do people and favor and reassign bugs to other projects when you find out
they're not in the fonts

alas, bugzilla doesn't have a mechanism to forward bugs from one bugzilla to
another. Please create a bug for pango and point it at this bug URL.