Re: mozilla problem

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Avery Pennarun wrote about "Re: mozilla problem"
| On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 04:29:17PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
| 
| > I've used mozilla earlier without too many problems. But now I get an awful
| > lot of disturbing messages:
| [...]
| > Warning: 
| >     Name: Text
| >     Class: XmTextField
| >     Character 'h' not supported in font.  Discarded.
| 
| I get this too, both with mozilla and Netscape's 4.5 PR1 for libc6.  I blame
| the Motif version that people are using for their libc6 compiles.
| 
| Is there anyone for whom this _doesn't_ happen?  Do you know why?  If there
| is a fix based on environment variables or symlinks, perhaps it should be
| placed into the appropriate Debian packages.
| 

By the advice of somebody(can't remember) on debian-user I added the
following to /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape.

# Set some env vars to make things work better
#
#LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/netscape:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This seemed to fix those types of problems.

-- 
Brian 
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