Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

[Stefan Monnier]

> $ ./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 seems the utf-8 locale doesn't only use the iso8859-1 charset but
specifies to fail if it's missing.  That's OK.  Now why does your libXt
think you don't have any font that covers iso8859-1?  Even if you don't have
any iso8859-1 font, an iso10646-1 font should do the trick since it also
covers iso8859-1.

And your xlsfonts showed you have

  -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-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.

Can you check the xfs log (is there such a thing?), see if it complains
about something?
What does

     xterm -fn -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1

do and/or say?


        Stefan