Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

[Kim F. Storm]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

>> Sorry, I was too hasty -- the message has changed:
>>
>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>> Warning: Cannot convert string
>> "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*,*" to type FontSet
>
> Can you see if you even have that font in any suitable charset, i.e.
>
> % xlsfonts|grep 'helvetica-medium-r-*120'


$ xlsfonts|grep 'helvetica-medium-r-.*120'
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-14
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-15
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-2
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-2
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-2
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-9
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-koi8-r
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-koi8-r
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-koi8-u
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-koi8-u
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-koi8-ub
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-koi8-ub
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-14
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-15
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-2
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-2
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-2
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-9
-cronyx-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-67-koi8-r
-cronyx-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-67-koi8-r
-cronyx-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-67-koi8-r
-cronyx-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-67-koi8-u
-cronyx-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-67-koi8-u

>
> If the locale and font codeset isn't compatible you should see just
> the first line ("Missing ...").  The second line indicates another
> problem, usually a missing font.
>
> You could try
> % emacs -q -xrm '*menubar*font: fixed'
> and see if you get just the first message then.
>

That's what I get:

(gdb) r -q -xrm '*menubar*font: fixed'
Starting program: /home/kfs/fsf/latest/src/emacs -q -xrm '*menubar*font: fixed'
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

But the menu bar looks really awful !!


What did Stefan's change do that triggered this ?


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