gneralized locale error! [was: emacs fonts/locale error]

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> when I run emacs from within X, I suddenly now get the following
> message: 
> 
> -----------
> matt@anarres:~$ emacs .muttrc
> No fonts match `-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15'
> -----------
> this seems especially wierd since my locale is set to en_US, which
> uses iso8859-1.  This error does not occur when I run emacs from a
> terminal, or when I run 'emacs -nw' to force text mode.  



Update:  just noticed I have a similar error ino ther programs -- I
ran dpkg-www for fun, and it gave me the following:

Cannot convert string "-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15"
to type FontStruct

Anybody have any idea where htis error comes from?  

thanks
m