Re: Abort when no X font resources are set.

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
>>  I don’t have the resolution-specific XFree86 directories in my font path, so
>>  the "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" font wasn’t
>>  available. There are plenty of other courier fonts available in the XFree86
>>  misc/ directory, though, so taking out the foundry specification stops the
>>  crash--the patch that stops it crashing for me is below. 

>>  Of course, some more informative output to standard error when the program
>>  can’t load its needed font is probably the better way to tackle the problem,
>>  long-term.

> Thank you for finding out this problem.  I now can reproduce
> the problem by delete the above font from my fontpath.  But,
> your fix is just a workaround.  I think we should set the
> ASCII font for the default font to what Fx_create_frame ()
> found (I thought it was doing that but somehow I forgot to
> implement it).  But, as I'm leaving for Beijing now, I'll
> work on it next week.

I've just installed fixes for this bug.  I deleted the code
setting the ASCII font of the default fontset in
syms_of_fontset, and make x_set_font to call a function to
set the ASCII font of the default fontset.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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