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* xfig: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
@ 2013-02-04  0:14 Andy
  2013-02-04 15:26 ` Jon TURNEY
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread
From: Andy @ 2013-02-04  0:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-xfree

When I start xfig, I get the following:
   Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
   Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
   Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
   ^GCan't open compose key file '/usr/lib/xfig/CompKeyDB',
      no multi-key sequences available

I want to deal wit the font messages first.  I may ask about the compose key
file if I can't resolve it with web search.

Googling the font error yields hits mostly from non-cygwin distributions of
xfig.  Most hits are from people who actually get more detail in the error,
specifying the fonts that are missing.  I don't seem to have that detail in the
message above.  I found that the fonts are stored in /usr/share/fonts, but I
haven't been able to find a description of how to determine which fonts are
missing.  The only font related messages in the XWin log file at
/var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log are:

   [  6157.577] XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization
   disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel

   [  6157.640] [dix] Could not init font path element
   /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list!

I don't care about "optimizations" at this point, so I ignored the first
message.  Googling "OTF" in the 2nd message reveals that they are
Adobe/Microsoft fonts, so I doubt that is the problem.  In any case, I would
like to avoid installing fonts willy-nilly because there are so many and I don't
want to bloat my system.

Is there an xfig log file or some other means by which one can determine which
fonts are missing?


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* Re: xfig: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
@ 2016-05-22 13:27 Stefan Katletz
  2016-05-22 13:55 ` Stefan Katletz
  2016-05-22 20:47 ` Stefan Katletz
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 17+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Katletz @ 2016-05-22 13:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-xfree

Hello,

I am now facing this (old) problem on a new installation under Windows
10. I tried 32 and 64 bit installations of cygwin, no difference: xfig
gives this warning, and crashes when I want to save/export the
drawing.

$ Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

xfig3.2.5c: SIGSEGV signal trapped
xfig: attempting to save figure
xfig: 1 object(s) saved in "/home/kat/SAVE.fig"

At least the work is not all lost, I used xfig under linux to do export...

Does anybody know what's going on? I am happy to supply logs if
somebody cares. I was reading the old mails, but couldn't find a
solution. I tried to install all font packages in cygwin I was
offered, but the warning appears even when starting with an empty
drawing.

thanks,
Stefan

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2013-02-04  0:14 xfig: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Andy
2013-02-04 15:26 ` Jon TURNEY
2013-02-05  0:27   ` Jack
2013-02-05  7:05     ` Andy
2013-02-12 14:12       ` Jon TURNEY
2013-02-12 14:42         ` marco atzeri
2013-02-12 15:42           ` Jon TURNEY
2013-02-12 15:53             ` marco atzeri
2013-02-13 17:17         ` Jack
2013-02-13 21:47           ` Thomas Dickey
2013-02-13 22:48             ` Jack
2013-02-13 23:26               ` Thomas Dickey
2013-02-14 16:15           ` Jon TURNEY
2016-05-22 13:27 Stefan Katletz
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