Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

[Jan D.]

Kim F. Storm wrote:

> (gdb) r -q  -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*,*'
> Starting program: /home/kfs/fsf/latest/src/emacs -q  -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: 
> -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*,*'
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*,*" to 
> type FontSet
>
> Program exited normally.
> (gdb) r -q -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*'
> Starting program: /home/kfs/fsf/latest/src/emacs -q -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: 
> -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*'
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" 
> to type FontSet
>  

There is something strange going on, "*" means match all fonts and 
should succeed to create a fontset.

What does this do on your system:

% emacs -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: XtDefaultFontSet'

% emacs -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: -*-*-*-R-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*,*'

and finally

% emacs -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: *'

These commands may very well choose ugly fonts, but the output, if any, 
is interesting to see.

You said earlier that you have LANG=en_US.UTF-8.  Can you try also 
LANG=C and make sure no LC_* is set in the environment?

Thanks,

   Jan D.