Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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). _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list Emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
