Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

[Kim F. Storm]

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

>>>> That is truly odd.  How come the XIM code doesn't trigger this
>>>> same problem?
>>
>>> I think the XIM code explicitly names the charset it wants.
>>
>> But our XIM code calls XCreateFontSet, just like Xt code.
>> And browsing the Xt source, the "Cannot convert string to FontSet"
>> message
>> seems to be generated when XCreateFontSet returns NULL, so maybe
>> we could track it down further by making an appropriate call to
>> XFontSet and
>> seeing what it returns.  Presumably it will return NULL but with a
>> non-zero
>> list of missing charsets.
>
> I've attached a test program.

Results:

$ ./missfonts
$ ./missfonts -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*
Missing 0: ISO8859-1
$ ./missfonts -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*,*
Missing 0: ISO8859-1


The xfs configuration doesn't list any ISO8859-1 fonts:
Somewhere, specifying UTF-8 requires ISO8859-1 ?

So it looks like a local installation problem with missing the
ISO8859-1 fonts.  I don't understand this as I installed _everything_
from the redhat 9.0 disks IIRC, and not installing the -1 fonts in any
case seems very odd.



#
# Default font server configuration file for Red Hat Linux
#

# allow a max of 10 clients to connect to this font server
client-limit = 10

# when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
clone-self = on

# alternate font servers for clients to use
#alternate-servers = foo:7101,bar:7102

# where to look for fonts
#
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/korean,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF,
        /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
        ,
        /usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype,
        /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/misc:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/misc,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/100dpi,
        /usr/share/fonts/ja/misc:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/ja/misc,
        /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/misc:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/misc,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/75dpi,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/100dpi,
        /usr/share/fonts/ko/TrueType,
        /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType,
        /usr/share/fonts/zh_TW/TrueType,
        /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts
# in 12 points, decipoints
default-point-size = 120

# 100 x 100 and 75 x 75
default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100

# use lazy loading on 16 bit (usually Asian) fonts
deferglyphs = 16

# how to log errors
use-syslog = on

# don't listen to TCP ports by default for security reasons
no-listen = tcp



XLC_LOCALE for en_US.UTF-8 requires ISO8859-1.

#  $XFree86: xc/nls/XLC_LOCALE/en_US.UTF-8,v 1.2 2000/02/29 03:09:07 dawes Exp $
#  XLocale Database Sample for en_US.UTF-8
# 

# 
#       XLC_FONTSET category
# 
XLC_FONTSET

on_demand_loading       True

object_name             generic

#       fs0 class
fs0     {
        charset {
                name    ISO10646-1
        }
        font    {
                primary ISO10646-1
        }
}
#       We leave the legacy encodings in for the moment, because we don't
#       have that many ISO10646 fonts yet.
#       fs1 class (7 bit ASCII)
fs1     {
        charset {
                name    ISO8859-1:GL
        }
        font    {
                primary         ISO8859-1:GL
                vertical_rotate all
        }
}
#       fs2 class (ISO8859 families)
fs2     {
        charset {
                name    ISO8859-1:GR
        }
        font    {
                primary ISO8859-1:GR
        }
}
#       fs3 class (Kanji)
fs3     {
        charset {
                name    JISX0208.1983-0:GL
        }
        font    {
                primary JISX0208.1983-0:GL
        }
}
#   fs4 class (Korean Character)
fs4     {
        charset {
                name    KSC5601.1987-0:GL
        }
        font    {
                primary KSC5601.1987-0:GL
        }
}
#   fs5 class (Chinese Han Character)
fs5     {
        charset {
                name    GB2312.1980-0:GL
        }
        font    {
                primary GB2312.1980-0:GL
        }
}
#       fs6 class (Half Kana)
fs6     {
        charset {
                name    JISX0201.1976-0:GR
        }
        font    {
                primary         JISX0201.1976-0:GR
                vertical_rotate all
        }
}
END XLC_FONTSET

# 
#       XLC_XLOCALE category
# 
XLC_XLOCALE

encoding_name           UTF-8
mb_cur_max              6
state_depend_encoding   False

#       cs0 class
cs0     {
        side            GL:Default
        length          1
        ct_encoding     ISO8859-1:GL
}

#       cs1 class
cs1     {
        side            GR:Default
        length          1
        ct_encoding     ISO8859-1:GR
}
 
#       cs2 class
cs2     {
        side            GR
        length          2
        ct_encoding     JISX0208.1983-0:GL; JISX0208.1983-0:GR;                 
JISX0208.1983-1:GL; JISX0208.1983-1:GR

}

#       cs3 class
cs3     {
        side            GL
        length          2
        ct_encoding     KSC5601.1987-0:GL; KSC5601.1987-0:GR;                   
     KSC5601.1987-1:GL; KSC5601.1987-1:GR

}
 
#       cs4 class
cs4     {
        side            GR
        length          2
        ct_encoding     GB2312.1980-0:GL; GB2312.1980-0:GR
}
 
#       cs5 class
cs5     {
        side            GR
        length          1
        ct_encoding     JISX0201.1976-0:GR
}

#       cs6 class
cs6     {
        side            none
        ct_encoding     ISO10646-1
}

END XLC_XLOCALE

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk