Hi, I've installed perl-tk on my debian system. A co-worker did the same install. He successfully runs the program below, but I get the results listed below. It looks to me like perl-tk is munging its paths to the font directories, but that may just be a by product of a different problem. There's nothing particularly exotic about my system. I'm stumped...anybody have any ideas? bigtiny the script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;
$mw->Label( -text => "foo" )->pack;
$mw->Button( -text => "bar", -font => "times", -command => sub { exit 
+} )->pack;

MainLoop;

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result: 
Tcl_GetStringFromObj @ 535 not utf8
SV = PV(0x88074ac) at 0x880f150
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x880ffd8 "font \"\230\377\200\10etica -12 bold\" doesn't exist
+"\0Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0x74a63860, byte 0x2d, afte
+r start byte 0xff) in subroutine entry at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/T
+k/Widget.pm line 190.
 [UTF8 "font "\x{63f}\x{0}bold" doesn't exist"]
  CUR = 39
  LEN = 40
SV = PVMG(0x880a848) at 0x880f150
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (SMG,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  IV = 0
  NV = 0
  PV = 0x880ffd8 "font \"\230\377\200\10etica -12 bold\" doesn't exist
+"\0Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0x74a63860, byte 0x2d, afte
+r start byte 0xff) in subroutine entry at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/T
+k/Widget.pm line 190.
 [UTF8 "font "\x{63f}\x{0}bold" doesn't exist"]
  CUR = 39
  LEN = 40
  MAGIC = 0x8810060
    MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_utf8
    MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_utf8(w)
    MG_LEN = 27
font "??etica -12 bold" doesn't exist at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Tk/
+Widget.pm line 190.
 at ./test.pl line 19
        Tk::Widget::new('Tk::Label', 'MainWindow=HASH(0x87f2c8c)', '-t
+ext', 'foo') called at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Tk/Widget.pm line 25
+6
        Tk::Widget::__ANON__('MainWindow=HASH(0x87f2c8c)', '-text', 'f
+oo') called at ./test.pl line 19
 at ./test.pl line 19

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In reply to Weirdness getting perl-tk to work by bigtiny

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