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RE: Using xfs but still get "Missing charsets" warnings.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk]
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:07 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: Moots, Joel A. @ EOS
> Subject: Re: Using xfs but still get "Missing charsets" warnings.
>
> JOEL.MOOTS@L-3com.com wrote:
> > I am starting Cygwin/X via the startxdmcp.bat file with the command:
> > XWin -query %REMOTE_HOST% -nodecoration -lesspointer -fp
> > tcp/%REMOTE_HOST%:7000 -once -clipboard
> > going to HP-UX 11.11 with dtlogin. Everything seems fine
> until I go to
> > launch various apps, at which point I get errors like:
> >
> > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface
> > user-medium-r-normal-m*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontSet
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "6x13" to type FontStruct
>
> These are only warnings, not errors.
>
> Do the applications not work, or do they just not use the
> fonts you are expecting?
>
They work but are sometimes difficult to use without the proper fonts
(plus many people complain about the messages).
> "Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion" is a bit
> of a poor message
> as it doesn't say which charsets are missing, despite the
> fact the bit of code
> emitting it knows exactly :-(
>
> This very likely is a locale issue, so can you say what the
> setting of LANG in
> both your cygwin environment and the HP-UX one is?
I had wondered if it was a locale issue and had checked that LANG was C
and even set LC_ALL to C as well, but only on the HP-UX side. I just
tried setting them in the startxdmcp.bat file as suggested, but it
didn't change anything.
>
> > So, I'm at a loss. The funny thing is that if I use an old (XFree86)
> > version of Cygwin/X, it works fine, without any font warnings.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
>
>
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