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Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:46:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> $ ./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.
Beats me...
>
> And your xlsfonts showed you have
>
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1
Indeed. FYI:
emacs -q -xrm "Emacs*fontSet:
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1"
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>
>> 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?
It is set to use syslog, but there is nothing relevant there.
> What does
>
> xterm -fn -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1
>
> do and/or say?
It starts an xterm without giving any error output.
But the font looks quite odd (tiny, and widely spaced).
Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion, Kim F. Storm, 2005/04/01
- Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion, Stefan Monnier, 2005/04/02
- Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion, Jan D., 2005/04/04
- Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion, Stefan Monnier, 2005/04/04
- Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion, Jan D., 2005/04/04
- Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion, Kim F. Storm, 2005/04/05
- Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion, Stefan Monnier, 2005/04/05
- Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion,
Kim F. Storm <=