Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

[Jan D.]

> > > > Warning: Cannot convert string 
> > > > "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontSet
> > > >
> > > > -- and the font used in the menu bar has changed.
>
> That, on the other hand, is a serious problem.  I suspect this font is
> specified in your .Xresources somewhere.  Can you try and replace the
> "iso8859-1" with "*-*" and see if it helps?

Or better, replace "-iso8859-1" with ",*".

> Maybe reusing the ".font" Xresources (turning it from a font spec to
> a fontSet spec) can't be done so trivially because it doesn't work 
> 100%?
>
> If so the best option is probably to back out my patch for now until I 
> (or
> someone else) can fix it to use ".font" and ".fontSet".

If you have specified a font that is iso8859-1 and your locale is 
UTF-8, you will get this message.  I don't know if that is a bad thing, 
after all it points to a problem in the setup.  On the other hand, if 
menu strings are all in iso8859-1 you will never see the problem so the 
warning is annoying.

        Jan D.