From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20894 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2013 07:05:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 20812 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Feb 2013 07:05:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_FJ X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:05:22 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U2cb2-0005wd-CO for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:05:36 +0100 Received: from 206-47-95-72.dsl.ncf.ca ([206.47.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:05:36 +0100 Received: from AndyMHancock by 206-47-95-72.dsl.ncf.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:05:36 +0100 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com From: Andy Subject: Re: xfig: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <510FD313.2000608@dronecode.org.uk> <1360023896.9996.0@ffortso4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2013-02/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 Jack sbcglobal.net> writes: >On 2013.02.04 10:26, Jon TURNEY wrote: >>On 04/02/2013 00:11, Andy wrote: >>> 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 >> >> Yes, this error message from libX11 is pretty bad, and should tell >> you the charsets that are missing. >> >> If I recall correctly, this warning is usually caused when you are >> using an UTF-8 locale (like the default C.UTF-8 locale), because >> when making the fontset, libX11 searches for matching fonts with >> all the encodings it knows about, and there are no matching fonts >> with CJK encodings (as no CJK fonts are installed). >> >> Installing the fonts font-isas-misc, font-jis-misc and >> font-daewoo-misc should work around the problem. >> >> You could also use a non-UTF-8 locale, but I wouldn't recommend >> that. I uninstalled xfig because I managed to solve my problem with Inkscape. I'm not trying to snub one vector drawing package over the other, just reporting what happened. I don't think I could have solved my particular problem with xfig even in the absence of error messages because I would have to convert a PDF to fig using pstoedit. That conversion was problematic -- messages about missing glyphs and unsupported fonts (I don't use CJK fonts, and the PDF did not contain any Asian characters). If I install xfig again and still encounter the messages in my original post, I'll try installing the fonts you suggested. > I'm getting the same three warnings, followed by > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-times-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-bold-r > -normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > to type FontSet > > but not the compose key message. I searched the Cygwin packages for CompKeyDB, and found that I needed to install xfig-lib. That caused the CompKeyDB message to go away. > I already have those three fonts installed, and my locale is > en_US.UTF-8. Ah well. Seems like it was a good attempt at guessing the cause, but those fonts weren't the problem. > I see some similar issues in the past in the list archive, including > an unanswered post from Yaakov 17 Dec 2009 which looks exactly like > this question. > > I've also seen posts suggsting other fonts or packages - none of > which I see on cygwin, so I don't know if they're not available or > just named differently. (Examples include gsfonts-x11, xfonts-base, > xfonts-encodings, xfonts-scalable) Yes, I saw some of these as well, notably gsfonts-x11. I didn't jump to the conclusion that those particular fonts were my problem because they seem to vary from situation to situation. And, as you noted, gsfonts-x11 is not part of a cygwin package (at least from a package search). > Any other troubleshooting you can suggest? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/