Re: xfig: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

[Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 13/02/2013 17:17, Jack wrote:
> On 2013.02.12 09:12, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> I've uploaded at [1] a patched version of libXt, which includes some extra
>> debugging output, including the name of encoding which is causing this
>> warning, based on a patch at [2].  (This patch isn't really suitable for
>> upstreaming as it needs to be wired up to libXt's rather confusing error
>> reporting and localization scheme)
>>
>> This should at least allow us to discover the name of the encoding which is
>> causing the warning.
>>
>> [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/cygXt-6.dll
>> [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gv/2010-07/msg00004.html
> 
> Jon,
> 
> Thanks for this.  I get a different set from the Marco.
> 
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Missing charset ISO8859-1 for fontset
> -*-times-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
[snip]
> Warning: Cannot convert string
>
"-*-times-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> to type FontSet
> Note these are after installing the sony font.  It looks like a nearly
> complete list of charsets.  I certainly don't need most of them.  I wonder if
> there is some Windows setting to trim down the list even considered on the PC?

The only way I can reproduce this is if I uninstall all my fonts.

This suggests to me that there's something rather odd going on.  Can you
provide /var/log/xwin/Xin.0.log and cygcheck -svr output, please?

Does xlsfonts list any fonts for you?

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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