Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

[Kim F. Storm]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> These commands may very well choose ugly fonts, but the output, if
> any, is interesting to see.

The error message is not shown (but as you say, the fonts are not good):

(gdb) r -q  -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: XtDefaultFontSet'
Starting program: /home/kfs/fsf/latest/src/emacs -q  -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: 
XtDefaultFontSet'

Program exited normally.
(gdb) r -q -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: -*-*-*-R-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*,*'
Starting program: /home/kfs/fsf/latest/src/emacs -q -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: 
-*-*-*-R-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*,*'

Program exited normally.
(gdb) r -q -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: *'
Starting program: /home/kfs/fsf/latest/src/emacs -q -xrm 'Emacs*fontSet: *'

Program exited normally.

>
> You said earlier that you have LANG=en_US.UTF-8.  

Yes, that's the default on Redhat 9.0 ...

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="da_DK.UTF-8:da_DK:da:en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

>                                                   Can you try also
> LANG=C and make sure no LC_* is set in the environment?
>

LANG=C works nicely !!

LANG=en_US and LANG=da_DK also works nicely !!

LANG=da_DK.UTF-8 shows the error.

So the problem it is the .UTF-8 part ...

Honestly, I don't have a clue to what's involved here, so I simply
kept the default.  Perhaps I don't have the necessary fonts to
support UTF-8?  How do I check that?

BTW, I googled for "Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion".
Similar problems have been reported for several other applications.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk