Missing character sets
Hi all,
I changed my locale from C to en_US.UTF-8, thinking that everything would
still work fine, but alas, it didn't. I could just change back, but that
defeats the purpose of experimenting... So, the question is how do I
finish this correctly? I installed a bunch of fonts, but that didn't seem
to help.
The symptom is this (for instance starting xmms):
The font "-*-arial-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.UTF-8"
(Missing character set "ISO10646-1")
(Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
(Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
(Missing character set "JISX0208.1983-0")
(Missing character set "KSC5601.1987-0")
(Missing character set "GB2312.1980-0")
(Missing character set "JISX0201.1976-0")
The font "-*-arial-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.UTF-8"
(Missing character set "ISO10646-1")
(Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
(Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
(Missing character set "JISX0208.1983-0")
(Missing character set "KSC5601.1987-0")
(Missing character set "GB2312.1980-0")
(Missing character set "JISX0201.1976-0")
fvwm2 has problems also, but the errors are less informative. I added a
bunch of stuff to /etc/locale.gen, mostly for fun, but at least it includes
ISO-8859-1 and GB2312, so I guess that is not the problem since otherwise
those would not be present in the errors.
Do I need to pick new fonts for everything if I want to work in this locale?
I also tried the default fvwm configuration, still nothing. The symptom
there is that I get no fonts in the drop down menus, just a blank box. That's
not really a big deal, as I don't use them that much anyway, but still not
right.
Any suggestions appreciated!
Thanks,
Aaron
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