echo $LANG gives: en
echo $LC_ALL gives nothing, it's not set
... On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:00:46 -0800 (PST) "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decided to write: ...
> On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote:
> > hello, I am new to Blackbox, but not to linux. Some themes come with
> > ansi fonts(.pcf), I have no problems installing them to allow Eterm
> > and Xterm to use them correctly.
> > I do this:
> > cp them to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc as root
> > mkfontdir as root
> > as user: xset fp rehash
> >
> > this allows my terminals to use them correctly, but i cannot get BB to
> > use them correctly. What am i missing here?
> >
>
> Sorry if I am making an assumption here but ....
>
> Are you using a locale set to something other than "C"? If so, what is
> happening is the XFontSet code is not liking the fonts you specified. It seems
> several of the fonts (such as "snap") while they claim to properly support a
> certain character set actually do not. Unsetting you locale when you launch
> blackbox will fix this, at the cost of some of your other apps.
>
> If you are not using a locale, then I am not quite sure what is happening.
>
> (To check your locale, open a term window and type 'echo $LANG' and 'echo
> $LC_ALL').
>
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Anh Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
