Perl/Tk uses X fonts and I think you should have the same font families on both machines. You can define a font in your Perl/Tk application like with xlsfonts and xfontsel:

use Tk::Font;

$font = $widget->Font('*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*');
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Hope that I helped.

      
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