Re: XFree86 missing iso8859-1 fonts?
On 25 Sep 2002, Matt Eaton wrote:
> After upgrading to Xfree86 4.0, all my applications are having trouble
> finding fonts:
>
> I reinstalled xfs to be sure, also xfonts-75dpi and 100dpi, regenerated
> locales, but to no avail. Is this a known bug? If so, is there a
> fix/workaround?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Most applications: (xfontsel)
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
>
Sounds as if you have recently upgraded the msttcorefonts package.
There was some discussion of this a week or so ago on the list; the way
of using these fonts in Debian has changed - see the archive.
As a quickfix workaround, you can comment out the relevant line in
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and make sure that these lines come before the
others:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
This should get your applications working while you sort out the
installation process for the MS fonts.
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