Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Ryan Johnson
ryanjohn@ece.cmu.edu
Mon Aug 9 21:20:00 GMT 2010
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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