Re: Re: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

[Ryan Johnson <ryanjohn at ece dot cmu dot edu>]

 On 8:59 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 03/08/2010 16:21, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> > As I mentioned before, I'd seen references to those fonts but wasn't 
> > sure it
> > would actually help me. I just installed them and, sure enough, 
> > there's still
> > some (fewer?) missing charsets.
> >
> > The delay dropped to only 2-3 seconds now though, so I guess that 
> > helps. Is
> > there a way to diagnose which fonts/charsets are still missing?
>
> Hmm.
>
> You could write a small test application which calls XCreateFontSet() 
> with the base font of "*" and reports the list of missing charsets 
> returned.
>
> It also seems that twm reports these problems in a slightly more 
> useful fashion than libXt (saying "font for charset <charset> is 
> lacking"), so running that (against an X server not started in 
> multiwindow mode) might serve just as well.
Hi Jon,

Fortunately (for me, not for the bug hunt) I picked up the newer version 
of xterm at some point, which set the menu locale to "C" and ended the 
problems.

Thanks,
Ryan



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