On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:44:45AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Damn, I solved the problem. The one change I did make to my X
> configuration, which was niggling at the back of my mind, was when I changed
> the fixed font (in /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias) to default to
> ISO10646-1 encoding to help the transition to UTF-8, instead of ISO8859-1.
> And this was precisely the problem.
>
> Changing fixed back to ISO8859-1 restores the lesstif applications.
It would appear, then, that Lesstif is only capable of handling 8-bit
fonts.
> (I only really need the ISO10646-1 font for xterm, so I've now got that
> working properly by putting
> xterm*font: fixed-utf-8
> into ~/.xResources).
Well, this isn't ideal, either.
For one thing, if you use uxterm this shouldn't be necessary.
For another, your specification is too broad.
XTerm.vt100.font: 10x20
I'd use a specification like that.
Finally, the name of the file should be ".Xresources".
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