Re: [help-gv] font issues

[Markus Steinborn]

Orion Poplawski wrote:
> linux> gv <any postscript file>
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-efont-biwidth-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,-gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-jis-fixed-medium-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0,-*-*-medium-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" 
>
> to type FontSet
Well, no real idea - otherwise I would have left a note in the old bug 
report before it has been closed as a duplicate.

Need help.


Google finds  http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue650   which 
seems to be related (same error message):

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So what can you do?  Complain to your distribution that (a) libXt
doesn't print the list of missing charsets, and (b) libX11 + libXt
require a charset for your locale that is not provided by any font in
an xorg-x11-fonts-* package (and, in my case, is highly unlikely to be
needed by any user in the locale).

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To investigate, we should:

1) try to get more information. Certainly it would help to know if 
"LANG=C gv somefile.ps" also prints warnings... In that case we would 
know that it is locale dependent. Perhaps the reporter will tell us.

2) try to reproduce it

3) try find a patch that prints the list of missing charsets. Compiling 
a patched  libXt shouldn't be too hard after having the patch.


I cannot find the link again, but some people having had the same error 
message on other programs think that this might be problems of the x,org 
server. For that, the missing font would help. Then one can verify be 
hand whether it is installed or not.

Possibly we can find out which fonts are used on CentOS resp.RHEL, where 
it is working.


BTW: When I did test for the original bug report (which is now closed) I 
started with a minimal fedora 13 installatation as provided by my cloud 
server. After (IIRC):

* yum groupinstall kde
* yum install gv

and for the remote login:

* yum xorg-x11-xauth
* yum localinstall nx-client nx-node nx-server   (all 3 from 
www.nomachine.com)

I could reproduce the font problem (using the old gv version with 
international mode enabled  by default). But of cause I got several 
errors from kde (pulseaudio not running etc.)

* yum install *font*

didn't help, which I cannot understand: On CentOS 5.5, I do not get any 
warning at all - so I assume there is no warning on RHEL 5.5.

After all chances are there that we can reproduce it.