Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?

[Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>]

I'm using Xming as X server. 

xlsfonts lists the following fonts as available:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x13
cursor
fixed

In the nedit preferences, I set the primary font to 

   -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

and then clicked on "Fill highlight fonts from primary".

However, when I invoke Cygwin's 'nedit', I get the error messages:

 Cannot convert string
 "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type
 FontStruct
Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type
FontStruct
Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Cannot convert string "-*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
to type FontStruct
Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

I wonder why nedit is searching for "helvetica" and "courier" fonts.
What's the best to do in this case?

Just for completeness (though it likely doesn't matter here): I also
searched the Xming documentation. There is a command (mkfontscale) which
makes Windows fonts available to X. I have executed it, and it created a
file c:\windows\fonts\fonts.dir, which seems to be a mapping between
Windows font files (.TTF,  .FON) and X font names. I don't know if or to
what extend this could help me with the nedit problem; in any case, this
list also doesn't contain "helvetica" or "courier".

Ronald
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